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Publisher, Stewart Sallo Editor, Joel Dyer Director of Sales & Marketing, Hassan Evans Director of Operations/Controller, Benecia Beyer Circulation Manager, Cal Winn EDITORIAL Managing Editor, Jefferson Dodge Arts & Entertainment Editor, David Accomazzo Associate Editor/Special Editions, Elizabeth Miller Online Editor, Steve Weishampel Interns, Michael Callahan, Alyssa Hurst, Hayley Proctor, Adelina Shee Contributing Writers, Peter Alexander, Rob Brezsny, Chris Callaway, Paul Danish, James Dziezynski, Clay Fong, Jim Hightower, Dave Kirby, Jessie Lucier, P.J. Nutting, Brian Palmer, Chris Parker, Adam Perry, Alan Sculley, Tom Winter, Tate Zandstra, Gary Zeidner SALES Retail Sales Manager, Allen Carmichael Account Executives, Andrea Craven, Joe Fuchs, David Hasson, Chelsea Mack PRODUCTION Production Manager, Dave Kirby Art Director, Susan France Graphic Designer, Mark Goodman Marketing Manager & Heiress, Julia Sallo Office Manager/Advertising Assistant, Jamie Peterson CIRCULATION TEAM Dave Hastie, Dan Hill, George LaRoe, Jeffrey Lohrius, Elizabeth Ouslie, Rick Slama 12-Year-Old, Mia Rose Sallo December 6, 2012 Volume XX, Number 18 As Boulder County's only independently owned newspaper, Boulder Weekly is dedicated to illuminating truth, advancing justice and protecting the First Amendment through ethical, no-holdsbarred journalism and thought-provoking opinion writing. Free every Thursday since 1993, the Weekly also offers the county's most comprehensive arts and entertainment coverage. Read the print version, or visit www.boulderweekly.com. Boulder Weekly does not accept unsolicited editorial submissions. If you're interested in writing for the paper, please send queries to: editorial@boulderweekly.com. Any materials sent to Boulder Weekly become the property of the newspaper. 690 South Lashley Lane, Boulder, CO, 80305 p 303.494.5511 f 303.494.2585 editorial@boulderweekly.com www.boulderweekly.com Printed on 100% recycled paper with soy-based ink. Boulder Weekly is published every Thursday. No portion may be reproduced in any form without written permission from the publisher. © 2012 Boulder Weekly, Inc., all rights reserved.

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Neither right nor left

I am writing in response to Dave Anderson’s commentary published by Boulder Weekly (“Washington must prioritize jobs, not cuts,” Nov. 22) as well as Anita Li’s letter (“The truth on Polis,” Nov. 29). What both Anderson and Li fail to understand is that living within our means and balancing our budget is not a conservative or liberal idea; it’s just common sense. When interest payments on

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the public debt crowd out more and more social spending, including the critical social safety net, I don’t see how that is consistent with the progressive goals of Mr. Anderson. Balancing the budget comes under fire from the “have your cake and eat it” crowd on both the left and the right. Spending at a rate that far exceeds the amount of taxes collected can only work for so long. Sooner or later, the bills must

be paid. And it’s a lot less painful to do so now, at a time when minor changes to revenue and expenditures can bring the budget into balance, than to stick our head in the ground and wait several more years only to face a much larger problem leading to draconian solutions that could cause tremendous harm to education, health care access, Medicare and Social

Expressing exasperation with Obama’s policies, Micah demanded that we Texans be allowed to decamp from the Union and become our own, separate nation. Bam — Micah’s petition exploded in the blogosphere, drawing raucous applause and huzzas! Naturally, most of the cheering came from out-ofstaters, delighted with the thought that Texas and its notoriously nutty, right-wing political leaders might leave. In case that nuttiness factor was in doubt, a GOP official in Southeast Texas rushed out to demonstrate the intellectual depth of the secessionist sentiment by militantly declaring: “We must contest every single inch of ground and delay the baby-murdering, tax-raising socialists at every opportunity. In due time,” he added, “the maggots will have eaten every morsel of flesh off

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The secessionist tempest in Texas by Jim Hightower

nce again, there’s a tempest brewing in the national tea pot. We’re talking secession! Well, some of us are. Actually, very few are — and some of them aren’t too tightly wrapped. There’s now a secession drive in a mess of red states, but it started right here in my crazy state of Texas, when someone identifying himself only as “Micah H” posted a petition on the White House website shortly after President Obama’s re-election.

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the rotting corpse of the Republic, and therein lies our opportunity.” By “maggots,” he meant Obama supporters, but I guess you knew that. Many in the national media have expressed shock and alarm that Micah’s online petition has drawn some 118,000 digital signatures. But, get a grip — let’s remember that there are more than 26 million Texans, including 3.5 million Obama voters. So, sorry America, but Texas isn’t going anywhere. And, even if it did, Austin has already filed a counter-petition to then secede from Texas and operate as its own state within the U.S. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly. December 6, 2012 7

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Anti-fracking proponents are turning up the volume, and for good reason by Joel Dyer

irst, let me say that I really appreciate the efforts that Boulder County Commissioners Will Toor, Deb Gardner and Cindy Domenico are making to help improve our county’s antiquated oil and gas regulations. I don’t envy them as they work their way through this difficult and incredibly important task. I’m guessing they have noticed that those who oppose oil and gas drilling in our county, particularly those wells utilizing horizontal drilling and fracking technologies, have become more vocal in their opposition of late. In fact, they couldn’t avoid noticing that their last public meeting on the subject became a full-on anti-fracking protest complete with begging, tears, accusations and even language that some folks may have construed as threatening. Time’s up, elected leaders. The fracking issue has officially blown up, and it is up to you to understand why and to do something about it, something bold and substantial. This isn’t like other recent issues that have been volatile on the county level, like GMOs on county open space. This time around, Boulder County citizens can’t just choose to shop at the local organic clean air and water store and pay a little more to keep their families safe while they carry on the fight with their own county to get it to do what the vast majority of citizens want. When people hear that the county’s staff and consultants are actually worried that recommending even something as small, and frankly pathetic, as 750- or 1,000-foot setbacks from homes is too restrictive and might anger Encana and its oil and gas industry peers, they get mad. The people of Boulder County aren’t stupid or poorly informed. They know about the research that says that having a drilling platform within 2,500 feet of your home may greatly increase your family’s chances of getting sick. They have read how groundwater contamination linked to fracking and poor drilling practices in places like Pavillion, Wyo., have destroyed communities. They’ve seen the gas bubbling up in our Western Slope rivers, and they’ve seen people in 8 December 6, 2012

Weld County lighting their drinking water on fire. And yes, they are aware that Encana seems to be around when things like that go wrong, always sending out the PR people to tell us that it’s not the company’s fault. Encana owns and operates the Muddy Gap Field in Pavillion, where the EPA found that not only is it likely that fracking has contaminated the groundwater, but that out of 169 wells examined by the agency, only two were properly cased and cemented to an adequate depth to protect groundwater. Encana is currently being investigated for price-fixing, along with its industry pal Chesapeake Energy. Evidence suggests that the two companies were allegedly exchanging email messages about not competing with one another to hold down lease prices. Evidence released so far suggests the emails came from the top, not some rogue petroleum landman in the field. And here we are in meek little ol’ Boulder County, trying to not make our hoped-for compromises to save our environment and quality of life too expensive or burdensome for the likes of Encana, which has already lined up dozens of drilling permits that it will presumably fulfill with the same lack of grace and environmental concern that it has exhibited in its other producing fields. This is why so many people are angry. They don’t want an extra 150 feet on a setback and another Encana promise to be really careful about its air and water pollution this time around. Boulder County residents understand that once this tidal wave of drilling rolls through, it’s over. It’s done. Forever. We can’t go back, we can’t undrill or unpollute our once-beautiful homeland. This is why people are so angry. The oil and gas industry understands what our elected leaders don’t seem to get, namely, that it has to drill it all right now because public opinion is turning, towns are passing fracking bans, and science is starting to catch up and is warning us of potential dangers from fracking that the industry laughed see FRACKING Page 11

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The homeless couple featured in BW (“‘A hand up’ for Boulder homeless couple,” News, Nov. 22), Lexi and Chris, have announced the birth of their happy and healthy new daughter. All is well. They have housing and they are connected to all of the appropriate resources, thanks to the kindness and the generosity of the agencies and the volunteers in the community that we all are so fortunate to be a part of. Lexi and Chris want to thank the people and the agencies in the Boulder community for the immediate assistance they have received as they prepared for a new addition to their family. They have received temporary housing and local families have delivered baby clothes and supplies. Their apartment rental fund is growing, and dad’s resume and employment search is well under way. The Americans 4 Social Justice Organization is planning to make a group home available for people who have completed the self-improvement programs at a local shelter. This housing opportunity will be affordable, with portions of the cost being shared by the residents who will all be employed in occupations of their choosing. Within a reasonable time frame, they will achieve financial independence and move on to individual, independent housing. Others who qualify will take their place. This process will give everyone in the shelter hope for the future and the incentive to work toward their personal goal. We hope future news stories will feature the personal experiences of people who Americans 4 Social Justice has enjoyed the privilege of assisting on their path to a better life. This has been possible only because here in

Boulder County there are so many hundreds of compassionate, energetic agency staff workers, advocate groups, religious groups, community volunteers, and citizens who without hesitation reach out to help people in need. Thank you all. Donations can be mailed to P.O. Box 17356 Boulder, 80308, payable to A4SJ. Mike Coccoli, Americans for Social Justice/Boulder

Fix the post office

It has long grated on me that the mail can’t seem to be delivered to all homes and businesses before, say, 1 p.m. Then the recipient could react or use those items related to business, if nothing else. If such would require postal employees to start work at 2 a.m., so what? Machines do nearly all the sorting now, or so I’m told. Or is the United StatesPostal Service so bogged down in “can’t” that it is not feasible for it to get out of its huge rut? After all, the outfit’s operational loss in the recent fiscal year approached $16 billion. Pleasing the customer should be the be-all and the end-all. Doing what the customer wants might even get the USPS more volume. The USPS might start with earlier delivery while maintaining Saturday delivery, and then excising most if not all the junk mail, if the customer wishes to opt out. The USPS might look for ways to shorten the lines at the local post office, too. What business would long succeed if it ignored the priorities its customers embrace? From what I’ve learned trying to deal with USPS war chiefs in the past, all the above is a hopeless pipe dream. Maybe it really is time to dump this wagon train. Maybe the natives would take it off our hands. After that Manhattan deal, fat chance. Darn. Gregory Iwan/Longmont Boulder Weekly

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FRACKING UNREST Our favorite moment from the tumultuous Dec. 4 Boulder County commissioners hearing on oil and gas regulations wasn’t the heckling of an Encana official as she left the meeting. Or even when the commissioners opened the hearing only to be drowned out by the hollers of anti-fracking activists and a well-organized crowd that repeated every phrase they shouted. Like, for 30 minutes. The commissioners, of course, didn’t like this particular public display, since it didn’t follow their prescribed, fenced-in, three-minute-limit format for public comment, so they just left the hearing room until the hubbub subsided. Sometimes democracy is uncomfortable for those in power. No, our favorite was when a group of kids who looked to be between 9 and 12 years old read their own statements, echoed by the crowd, and then walked up to the commissioners’ dais and sat in the commissioners’ chairs. The audience roared with approval at this symbolic gesture of saying, “Hey, elected officials who are supposed to be representing us! Think about the health of our kids and their future when you make fracking decisions! Or else we’ll put other people in your chairs!” The kids, some of whom were representing the group Earth Guardians, then led the crowd in a rousing chant of “Ban fracking now!” Gov. Frackinlooper and his oil and gas buddies better wake up and smell the coffee, because this issue is only going to get more emotionally charged as time goes on. Power to the people.

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off and claimed could never happen only a few years ago. Just this week, the U.S. Geological Survey confirmed that disposal wells where fracking fluids are hidden away are, in fact, causing earthquakes, something the industry has denied for years. More importantly, that means that those disposal wells are located along previously unknown faults, which means that the toxic fracking liquids can escape from their supposed permanent burial sites and begin the journey toward the groundwater above, where such contamination could have staggering consequences. New research in the Marcellus shale in Pennsylvania has confirmed that this is likely happening. This is why people are angry. Note to our county commissioners: Please stop trying to figure out the best compromise you can get without angering the state and the oil and gas industry, and start using radical, creative thinking to do the will of the people and stop the fracking. We understand that we will get sued and it will cost money. We approve the expenditure. If you don’t believe us, put it to a vote like they did in Longmont. You know it would pass. Even if we can’t win, we can certainly delay things until more information and new legal challenges to the industry arise. If we don’t fight now, when that new information comes along that finally stops or makes fracking more safe, it will not matter. Boulder County will already have been decimated. Our air will already be more dangerous to breathe and our property values will already have been devastated. There are many lawsuits currently under way around the country that are effectively slowing down or even temporarily stopping the drilling. Boulder County should extend the moratorium on drilling and use the time to study which of these suits we could use here to our advantage. The state of Colorado recently announced that it will not enforce the EPA’s new air quality standards for oil and gas wells because it only has eight existing air-quality inspectors who already can’t get to the state’s existing 48,000 wells. The EPA should be willing to enforce its own laws, but it says it has assigned its enforcement and inspection duties to the state. Why can’t Boulder County use this incompetence to its advantage? Boulder County could refuse to grant a drilling permit for any well that will not be operated and inspected in accordance with federal air quality standards. If the state sues, the EPA should have to join with the county in defending the practice. Boulder County wouldn’t be setting its own more restrictive requirements on the oil and gas industry, it would simply be Boulder Weekly

refusing to allow the industry to operate outside of the existing federal law. Maybe it works, maybe it doesn’t. The point is our county commissioners have to stop trying to get as little as they can get away with from the industry and state to avoid getting sued. If we don’t fight to stop, or at least delay as long as humanly possible, the coming fracking invasion, we all lose, forever. And that’s why people are so angry, and why they will only get moreso until their voice is heard. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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hipping containers were not Mark Gelband’s first choice. Gelband’s house, at the foot of Flagstaff Mountain near the west end of College Avenue, made headlines a few weeks ago when he installed a 53-foot-long blue metal box on his property. The University of Colorado Boulder communications director says he plans to use three containers to give his long, narrow house a second story. But there’s a lot more than the strange-news headline. Gelband installed the container after his initial plans for a traditional second floor were blocked by the city. And he says it’s because one of his neighbors is Susan Osborne, a former mayor and city council member. Gelband makes two accusations against Osborne, now a retiree: He claims that Osborne, a former city planner, inserted a short phrase into city code specifically to limit how much he can build on his property, and he says she pushed city officials to “hassle” him about his construction. Osborne denies Gelband’s accusations; she says she made no changes to city code to benefit her personally and she has no special influence with the city. “I don’t know what his problem is,” Osborne says, “but I know that he sees a lot of conspiracies when there absolutely are none.” Gelband’s house is an unusual structure to say the least, attracting attention from residents of Boulder and beyond. Julee Herdt, a professor in CU-Denver’s College of Architecture and Planning, calls it a “beautiful project.” His neighbors might say differently. Osborne says none of the neighbors are thrilled about the house. “I think the neighbors are all pretty much just resigned to it,” she says. “Change isn’t easy.” And it’s not the change Gelband first envisioned. He says the trouble started in 2008, when city council took on the compatible development ordinance, sometimes called “pop and scrape.” In its draft stages, the ordinance was passed among committees, city council members and experts in urban planning and architecture. And at some point, a short clause was added that sets a strict height limit on a house if a retaining wall forms the 12 December 6, 2012

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Boulder resident says cronyism blocked his building plans by Steve Weishampel side border of a property. Picture this: The maximum height of your house is set by a plane — the geometry kind, not the Wright brothers kind — hovering in the air. This “bulk plane” is at a 45-degree angle to the ground, starting 12 feet off the ground at your property line and going upward. Unless there’s a retaining wall on the property line, in which case the bulk plane doesn’t start 12 feet off the ground; it starts 12 feet above the base of the wall, according to the city code. And the height of a wall’s base can vary on each side when it is on a slope, like the one separating the Gelband and Osborne properties. So where an average house gets those full 12 feet, the higher house — in this case Gelband’s — gets less. Thus the shipping containers. The long, thin containers fit within the bulk planes of Gelband’s property. Gelband says that having a retaining wall on the property line is extremely rare. It exists, he says, “in less than 20 homes in Boulder.” His theory is that Osborne inserted the rule to block him from ever building a second story. Osborne, then a city council member, could have worked in the language because she knew it would limit her neighbor from building a second story. But the city does not track how often that situation happens in Boulder. “It’s not information that we even

have,” says David Driskell, the city’s executive director of community planning and sustainability. “He’s made claims about it that have no basis on which to dispute.” Nobody who spoke to Boulder Weekly could confirm or dispute Gelband’s number, which he says he arrived at by examining city maps. But multiple Boulder architects with residential experience say they’ve never encountered that condition between properties. Something else nobody seems to know: where the phrase in the compatible development code came from. The process of composing the code was long and complicated. “There are hundreds of pages of memos for planning board and for council,” Driskell says. And while he says “everything is done here very transparently,” including minutes or an audio recording from every meeting, the city hasn’t been able to produce a record of the meeting where the retaining wall language was added. While Driskell says he “wasn’t that involved,” he does assert that the retaining wall code wasn’t written just to address the Osborne-Gelband property line. Gelband says it was. “It’s hard for her to argue that she didn’t know how that snippet of code affects her personally,” Gelband says.

“She knew when she voted for it.” Osborne says that isn’t true. “He’s turned what is not personal into something personal and makes things against him,” she says, “and it was so not against him. I didn’t imagine it would affect him,” she says of the compatible development ordinance as a whole. In fact, she says she wasn’t aware of the short phrase about retaining walls until after the code was passed. “I didn’t even know it was in the ordinance until he did a FOIA on my email,” Osborne says, referring to the federal Freedom of Information Act. Gelband has filed Colorado Open Records Act requests with the city about this issue. “I get this call from the city clerk,” Osborne says, “saying that Mark has requested a FOIA about this clause in the ordinance. I didn’t know this clause was in the ordinance. While she denies inserting the language, Osborne says she supports it. She says the limit makes sense, because Gelband’s house sits above hers. A full second story on Gelband’s house could block her view to the west. A resident restricted by city codes can request a variance to build outside the city’s codes, but when Gelband applied to the city for a variance, his neighbors complained, says Mark Gerwing, Gelband’s architect. “Even though staff was recommending in favor, a lot of Mark’s neighbors came out against the project,” he says. “A lot of it didn’t really pertain to our initial request, but the board of zoning appeals decided to give us a continuance instead of an approval or denial.” The board of zoning appeals also directed Gelband and Gerwing to work in collaboration with his neighbors to decide on a design for Gelband’s house. It’s an unusual step, the architect says. “I have never heard of that happening before,” Gerwing says. A statement from Boulder spokeswoman Sarah Huntley contradicts Gerwing’s claim. Huntley says that the zoning board “regularly” considers impacts on neighboring properties. “In most cases, applicants have already worked with neighbors to address such concerns,” Huntley said in See BOXED IN Page 13

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he Boulder homeless couple featured in a Nov. 21 Boulder Weekly feature story — Lexi and Chris Weaver — now has a little girl. The baby was born last weekend. Mike Coccoli of Americans 4 Social Justice (A4SJ) told BW that thanks in large part to the article, the couple has received generous support from donors and local homeless advocacy agencies, which have provided temporary housing and other resources that permitted the child to be born indoors, with the necessary support, rather than under the bridge where the couple was living. (See letter to the editor on page 11.) But not all feedback has been positive. Tom Cummins of A4SJ says the couple was shaken up by the negative comments posted under the online version of Boulder Weekly’s story, and is unwilling to release the names of the assisting agencies or donors, or even the name of their baby, for fear of negative consequences such as having someone call in the local child protective services unit. In the comment section under the BW story, two people identified as “Kristina11” and “Shawn” got into a heated debate about issues such as how, and whether, the homeless couple should be bringing a new life into the world. The online comments “shook them up big-time. I thought they were going to pull a runner,” Cummins said, referring to the likelihood that the couple would leave town. “But luckily, the baby came a little early, so they didn’t have time to plan it.” He added that the couple is doing very well. “These first couple of weeks with the baby are going to be exactly what they need to get back on track,” Cummins said. “They’re going to be OK.” But he said the online comments section after the BW article was not constructive. “All that shit that ended up in those comments was just really hard to stomach,” Cummins said. “These people don’t know these kids. And here they are making all these judgments about them. I mean, they are the nicest kids. They would give you the shirt off their back. To be treated that way was just ugly.” Cummins did say that A4SJ received a significant amount of donations thanks to the BW story, even more than the contributions sent to the Weavers. Anyone who would like to donate money to either the couple or the organization can send checks payable to A4SJ to P.O. Box 17356, Boulder, CO 80308. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com Boulder Weekly

an email. In other cases, the board “may vote to continue the hearing to allow for time to address neighbor concerns.” Huntley sent the email in response to requests by Boulder Weekly to interview several city officials about Gelband’s case. Gelband argues that the city rarely issues a building permit and then retracts it or demands more information. “[I asked,] how many times have you asked for additional structural drawings based on the complaints of a neighbor? I said, 10 times in the last 20 years? Five times? And Construction at the they wouldn’t answer,” south end of Gelband’s he says. “But the truth property is that it’s extremely rare.” Huntley says it isn’t. dents “every day” about their neighbors’ “It is not uncommon for the city to construction projects, and the city isn’t request additional information after giving special treatment to Osborne. approving permits,” she says in the “We treat everybody equally,” he email. She didn’t provide the last time it says. “We’re actually more cognizant of happened. that treatment when there are people Driskell acknowledges that involved who we might know personalGelband’s case is unique and calls issuly.” ing him a permit in the first place a Huntley puts it even more plainly: “mistake.” “Susan Osborne did not influence the “It’s unusual in that there was infor- review process for Mr. Gelband’s mation on his drawings that was not house,” she says in the email. complete or correct that came to light Osborne says Gelband is imagining after his permit was issued,” he says. “… she’s a lot more powerful than she is. It’s not usual for us to make a mistake “He imagines that I have all these and issue a permit, but we do have the friends in the planning department and authority to request additional informa- all these friends in the city,” Osborne tion.” says, “and it’s insane. ... Somehow he The mistake was pointed out by has imagined that I am this person that Osborne, who looked closely at is weirdly powerful and I speak to peoGelband’s plans, as neighbors are per- ple all the time and get them to do mitted to do by the city’s zoning things to him and harass him, and it’s board. so far from the truth.” “We hired an architect to look at his Asked if there’s a chance her conplans,” she says. “The first thing she cerns were treated differently because asked is, ‘Where is the calculation of she’s a former city council member, the bulk plane?’” Osborne says, “Absolutely not. That is So Osborne brought that problem to not the kind of city that Boulder is. ... city officials, and they responded by issu- The idea that there’s any kind of ing the continuance on the permit. favoritism or preference, he should just That’s a sign, Gelband says, that the city get off it. He should just build his is wrapped around Osborne’s finger. house.” “City staff, in dealing with my Osborne says she and Gelband have building project, is going through discussed mediation to resolve their difextraordinary lengths to appease ferences, but she doesn’t seem hopeful. Susan,” he says. He calls it a “pattern of “I’m just sorry that he’s my neighdishonesty and harassment.” bor, I guess.” Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com But Driskell says he hears from resiDecember 6, 2012 13

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lame retardants in U.S. furniture are on the rise, with a new study finding them in nearly all couches tested. The findings, published Nov. 28, confirm that household furniture remains a major source of a variety of flame retardants, some of which have been building up in people’s bodies and in the environment. In the new tests, three out of every four couches purchased before 2005 contained the chemicals, with a nowbanned compound in 39 percent. For newer couches, 94 percent contained flame retardants, nearly all next-generation compounds with little known about their potential health effects. “More furniture appears to be treated with flame retardants today than, say, 15 years ago,” said Heather Stapleton, an environmental chemist at Duke University and lead author of the project, which also included researchers from the University of California, Berkeley and Boston University. In a separate study also published today, researchers found that dust in California homes is contaminated with levels of flame retardants that exceed health risk guidelines developed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Some of the chemicals have been linked to cancer, altered hormones or neurological effects in lab animals, fetuses and children. Whether there are health risks from many of the newer flame retardants, however, is largely unknown, and most furniture does not carry labels that provide information to consumers. “I am concerned by the rise in use and diversity of flame retardants on the market because we have very little information on their toxicity and potential effects on the general population, particularly vulnerable subpopulations such as pregnant women and young children,” said Ami Zota, who studies flame retardants and reproductive health at the University of California, San Francisco. She did not participate in the new research. The scientists discovered one chemical in sofas that had never been reported before as a flame retardant. “There is little to no information about the potential health effects of these new flame retardants in the peer-reviewed literature,” said Heather Patisaul of North Carolina State University, who studies endocrine-disrupting chemicals but was not involved in the research. A spokesperson from the American Chemistry Council, which represents flame retardant manufacturers, said “this study confirms what we would expect to find: Furniture manufacturers use approved flame retardants to meet established fire safety standards, which help save lives. There is no data in this study that indicate that the levels of flame retardants found would cause any human health problems.” The use of flame retardants is traced to a California

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standard adopted in the 1970s, which mandates that foam used in furniture cushions must withstand a 12-second exposure to a small, open flame. Because the market in California is so large, much of the nation’s furniture is manufactured with flame retardants to meet that standard. The scientists tested 102 couches purchased between 1985 and 2010 in the first study that has examined flame retardants that have come onto the market since 2005. The foam samples were not randomly selected, so the results might not represent the United States as a whole, the authors said in their article published in the journal Environmental Science and Toxicology. In all, 85 percent contained flame retardants. In tests of couches purchased over the past seven years, the chemicals were even more prevalent: 94 percent compared with 75 percent for those purchased between 1985 and 2004. Tris, a suspected human carcinogen that was banned for use in baby pajamas in the 1970s, was the most prevalent compound in the couches; it was found in 41 percent. The separate study from the Massachusetts-based Silent Spring Institute, published in the same journal, found two different mixtures of Tris in dust in each of the 16 California homes studied. PentaBDE was found in 17 percent of the couches. The chemical was phased out in the United States in 2005 after studies showed it was building up rapidly in human breast milk. In the tests of couches purchased prior to 2005, PentaBDE was the most common flame retardant, at 39 percent. Tris was found in 24 percent of sofas purchased before 2005. But in couches bought after that, it was found in 52 percent, showing that it has become increasingly popular since PentaBDE was phased out.

Before 2005, PentaBDEs and Tris, also known as TDCPP, were the only flame retardants used in U.S. furniture, Stapleton said. Since then, chemical companies have developed several replacements, and scientists have struggled to keep pace with studying their health risks. “Today, we know of at least six different mixtures being used as flame retardants in furniture,” Stapleton said. “And we know less about the health effects of these flame retardants compared to PBDEs and TDCPP.” Firemaster 550, made by Chemtura, was found in 18 percent of couches tested. In February the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency put two of Firemaster 550’s key ingredients on a list for review due to potential health concerns. Mixtures of different kinds of chemicals were found in 13 percent of couches from 2005 or later. One is known as TBPP, which the authors say is the first report of its use as a flame retardant. “This study highlights the fact that there are several new flame retardant chemicals replacing PBDEs in consumer products, most of which we have little to no human health data, which is concerning,” said Lesliam Quirós-Alcalá of the University of California, Berkeley, who studies flame retardants in house dust but was not part of the new study. PentaBDE and other brominated flame retardants known as PBDEs have been linked in some studies of people and animals to impaired neurological development, reduced fertility, early onset of puberty and altered thyroid hormones. Most recently, a study found that prenatal and childhood exposures were linked to disabilities in attention, coordination and cognition in a cohort of school-age children. By December, the last PBDE mixture in consumer products, DecaBDE, is scheduled for phase-out, but PBDEs will linger in older couches and in people. “Given their environmental and biological persistence, they are likely to join the legacy POPs [persistent organic pollutants], like PCBs and DDT, in being with us for the foreseeable future,” said Linda Birnbaum, director of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences and National Toxicology Program. Low-income families face disparately high residential exposures to the banned compounds PBDEs compared to newer flame retardants. “Low-income families may keep their furniture for longer, prolonging exposure to phased-out chemicals,” Quirós-Alcalá said. Concentrations of the chemicals in couches averaged 4 to 5 percent by weight, but some couches had over 11 percent. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com — Brett Israel is a senior editor and staff writer for Environmental Health News. December 6, 2012 17

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Veteran Steve Baskis, who was blinded by a bomb in Iraq, climbing in the Himalayas.

efor getting caught up in the destination — the 19,347-foot-high summit of the volcano Cotopaxi — it’s important to back up and look at the journey. That is, after all, what it’s really all about. “It’s so easy to get fixated on, ‘These guys are climbing Cotopaxi — how rad is that?’ That’s just icing on the cake, you know,” says Charley Mace, a mountaineer and program director for Soldiers to Summits. The “guys” he’s talking about are the members of a team of 17 military men and women, former and current Army, Navy, Marines, Air Force and National Guard service members, who are, yes, coming together to climb Cotopaxi. Some are dealing with physical limitations incurred by injuries to wrists, ankles and knees. Many of them list symptoms of PTSD and TBI. Four are still active duty, and three are still returning to hospitals for treatments. They’re all taking part in the latest program from Soldiers to Summits, run by No Barriers USA. “These guys are learning so much already, and have changed their lives already, improved their lives so much already, because it’s a long-term, ongoing program,” Mace says. It’s a program, he emphasizes, not a one-time trip and not an expedition. Participants have spent the last six months physically training and working on the “no barriers” mindset, and the goal is for them to complete the expedition with far more than a tick on a checklist of peaks. “Our organizational mission is to unleash the potential of the human spirit,” says David Shurna, executive director of No Barriers USA. “What we believe is that by championing and instilling the ‘No barriers’ mindset in people through these transformative adventures, we’re unleashing the potential of the human spirit.” The mindset looks to four key pillars: aiming high, entering the storm, harnessing adversity and doing good. xx2i.bw.left page.pdf

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“On the mountain they’re going to be trying to aim high literally, enter the storm literally, and then harness the challenges that they’re facing right in the moment to make a stronger team,” Shurna says. “The end goal, the fourth pillar of the no barriers mindset, is doing good, so you’re aiming high, you’re entering the storm and why are you doing it? Well, you’re doing good for yourself, you’re doing good for the world.” Since being accepted to the program, one of the participants has quit a three-packs-a-day smoking habit. Others have made such dramatic lifestyle changes they’ve shed 35 to 40 pounds. “It’s really not about the climbing,” Mace says. “We’re hoping to provide a tool kit for these guys to overcome whatever barriers and whatever summits are in their lives. As anybody in Colorado knows, climbing a mountain isn’t just about the mountain. It’s how you take the lessons that you learned in that time and apply them back home, otherwise you’ve learned nothing from your time out in the hills.” Climbing just happens to be the ultimate metaphor for whatever a person is struggling with.

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“There’s a perfect quote, ‘The summits of the mind are not so easily attained. There is much more than storm and precipice between you and your Everest,’” Mace says, quoting Cecil Day Lewis. “Oftentimes, with this particular population, the real wounds are not the visible wounds, the real summits, the real challenges, are not the visible ones. ... Whatever those summits are, whatever those barriers are, we help provide this tool kit that folks can use to face those adversities and turn that lead into gold.” Soldiers to Didrik Johnck Summits was sparked by the 2010 trip that 11 veterans and 10 Mount Everest climbers took to Lobuche, a 20,100-foot neighbor to Mount Everest. The trip was to recognize the 10th anniversary of the first ascent of Mount Everest by a blind climber, Eric Weihenmayer. That story was told in the Charley Mace Serac Adventures film High Ground. “Lobuche was such a powerful trip for all of us, the veterans and the guides,” says Mace, who was on the Lobuche trip as well as with Weihenmayer on his Everest expedition. “It was just too good of a thing not to formalize, so we created Soldiers to Summits.” Weihenmayer, a board member for No Barriers, drew the pieces together. This trip to Cotopaxi is their second program. The team includes five mentor members who participated in the 2010 trip to Lobuche: Kathryn Raggazino, Dan Sidles, Justin Moore, Chad Stone and Steve Baskis. Bringing participants back as mentors allows them to keep engaging in the program, to give back, and share their experiences as a way of opening those conversations up for first-time participants. “It’s really hard to measure the met-

rics of the success of a program like this,” Mace says. “There’s all sorts of things you might be able to say, like, oh, he’s still employed, or he’s still off heroin, he hasn’t gone back to fighting and drinking in bars, he’s been able to keep his marriage together or not, he hasn’t killed himself yet — the suicide rate for veterans is through the roof. Partly that’s because these guys spend a lot of time looking backwards. One of the things we try to do is help them look forward — what am I going to do tomorrow? What am I going to do with my life? What am I going to be when I grow up? — focusing on something more positive.” When Boulder Weekly met with firsttime participant Tommy Carroll in June, Cotopaxi was the first thing he wanted to talk about — he’d just been accepted to the team. “I can’t wait,” he said. “I’ve never hiked that high.” After Carroll, a Boulder resident, was discharged from the Army, a motorcycle accident left him with a leg amputated above the knee and a traumatic brain injury. “What I did three days ago, I don’t know. I know I was on the rock somewhere, or helping vets,” says Carroll, who has ice climbed with Paradox Sports, hiked 14ers with Veterans Expeditions and taught adaptive skiing. “It’s not a matter of giving up. It’s a matter of figuring out how. ... My memory is in my hands. My memory is physical. That’s why I climb and ski. When you’re climbing, when you’re doing these things, you don’t have time to think of anything else. You’re just serene — or, I am.” The team departed for Quito, Ecuador, on Dec. 1. The following Monday morning, they set off on a

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training hike. “We are pushing towards the summit of Guagua Pichincha, an active volcano, at the moment, getting everybody up some rock face, doing a little climbing, a little scrambling, so everybody’s getting their appetite whet for climbing that has never done it before, and there’s a lot of smiles, so it’s a good sign,” said Justin Moore, one of the team’s mentor members, in a video blog. A 12:40 p.m. tweet announced that, after a four-hour scramble up a rocky ridge, the entire team arrived at the 15,695-foot summit. The team will make their Cotopaxi

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summit push on Dec. 10. Soldiers to Summits participants are posting updates to Twitter and Facebook and blogging their progress, in addition to doing conference calls while on their trip. Visit www.soldierstosummits.org for details. No Barriers USA is also still trying to fundraise a dollar for every foot climbed toward the 19,347-foot summit. Information on that it is at www.nobarriers.fundraise. com/onedollar. After all, the summit isn’t what really matters. It’s each step along the way. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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School of Design in 1995 with a degree in industrial design — a field that fills in the blanks “once architecture ends,” he says. He worked hard and got an internship designing Teva sandals, but he turned down the company’s job offer after his dream of working at an exciting outdoors company clashed with the dull reality of actually being there. He wanted more of a fulfilling job, and his position at Teva would have been doing what the marketing team told him to do, when what he really wanted was to “phase out of the planned obsolescence” that is see B.L.A.M. Page 24

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modern manufacturing. In the search for a more meaningful existence he wandered around the country for a few years, went on a “nomadic carpentry spree” and ended up as a ski bum in Jackson Hole. It was during a shoulder season when he and a bunch of friends were sitting in Jackson’s Snake River Brewing Company drinking beers and had the idea to put on an art show. None of the people at the table made enough art to throw a solo art show, Doolittle says, but they figured if they combined forces they could cover the walls of the brewery. “It was people realizing that they needed to commit to becoming an artist,” Doolittle says. They pitched the idea to the brewery, and since it was during a dead time of the year, tourism-wise, the brewery had nothing to lose. A tradition was born. The first B.L.A.M. event in Jackson Hole had five or six artists participating; the upcoming event will have 13 artists from around town showing off their work. In lieu of a beer sponsor providing drinks, Doolittle encourages people to bring a six-pack of their favorite beer and toss it in the ice bucket. Mike Grab, the rock-balancing artist of Boulder Creek fame, will provide electronic music as DJ Grab, as well as exhibit photos of some of his mindboggling, physics-defying “gravity glue” sculptures. Other artists on the bill include Andrew Wyatt, Carve Industries,

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Darren Roebuck, Jeff Brown, Tina Krasnesky, Love Pilot Designs, Phil MacDonald, SIXOL, Susan Herrmann, Triple Scissors and Turner Ridge Photography. “[B.L.A.M.] is about bringing people together and having a good time and talking about art and stuff,” Grab says. “It’s not necessarily geared toward the whole money aspect of things. It’s just a congregation of free, artistically minded people.” Doolittle is the common thread among all the artists at the show. With photographs, wooden surfboards, steel furniture, paintings and crochet crafts, a wide variety of mediums will be represented at the show. He describes the artists present as “sort of a fusion of friends, or friends of friends, and random people you Boulder Weekly

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met at a bar.” Doolittle stumbled across Lyonsbased Carve Industries while doing some research on a side project of his called Bambitat, where he seeks to expand the use of bamboo to build sustainable housing. Carve makes surfboards and stand-up paddleboards out of reclaimed wood (including beetle-kill pine), and Doolittle thought he had found a kindred spirit, so he invited them to bring a few boards to the show. “We don’t build these as art,” says Evan Patronik of Carve, “but as a beneficial side product, they are art. … When we finish one, I’m kind of amazed. I’d say probably half the people who see the boards say they would never ride it; they want to put it up in their living rooms.” Boulder’s art scene could use some help, according to Doolittle (his pithy description for the scene was “lame”). Interacting with local artists, though, is like fertilizer for a creative community, and events like B.L.A.M., as well as the Boulder RAW Artists event happening Dec. 12 at Absinthe House, help grow a scene. Grab, the rock-balancer, says the artists are in Boulder, there’s just not much interaction with the community. “It’s really interesting,” Grab says. “There’s a lot of underground art going on as far as graffiti that I see around town. I feel there’s a strong movement of artists. Whether they’re known or unknown to the general population, I feel like there are a lot of things going, and most people aren’t really tuned into things.” Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com Boulder Weekly

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dozen opera singers walk into a bar. It may sound like the setup to the punch line of an old joke, but in this era of micro-brewed entertainment, any place can be a stage. For those who indulge in Opera on Tap, getting lit and getting enlightened go hand in hand. Opera on Tap Colorado is a nonprofit organization that attempts to break down the staid, elitist stereotypes of the genre by taking it out of theaters and into local gathering places. Performing its Holiday Extravaganza at Shine on Dec. 11, Opera on Tap will bridge the audience divide while educating those unfamiliar with sounds that don’t come out of the jukebox. “At first I didn’t know what I was getting myself into, the idea of doing opera in a dive bar,” says area singer Emily Stephenson. “It’s been a great opportunity not only for the singers, but for the audiences. They get to see and know opera in a little bit less intimidating of a setting.” For a singer, belting out a new number in front of a lubricated bar crowd can be a bit more comfortable than in front of thousands of tuxes and gowns. Being able to sit and talk with other performers during the show or interacting with the audience afterwards can be more gratifying feedback than that from a coach or professor. “The atmosphere lets people try things they might be a little bit shy in doing in an audition or in front of a teacher,” says Eve Orenstein, singer and spokesperson for Opera on Tap Colorado. “We want to let people know why it is we do these crazy things. While it may seem foreign or weird, to us the music is incredibly touching and beautiful and funny.” “It’s very much a place where I can try new repertoire and get the kinks out of new things in a very safe environment,” says Gina Razón, professional singer and Opera on Tap participant. “Bringing it that close, you can really tell if you’re delivering authenticity.” Unlike the silent masses filtering into a Convention Center production, Opera on Tap audiences wear their emotions on their sleeves. The effects of alcohol can also make patrons more confrontational than an anonymous blogger. “Our audiences are usually pretty vocal, but for the performers it’s instantaneous feedback,” Stephenson says. “Because of the types of venues we’re in, you’re much closer to the audience. You can really see everybody’s faces and reactions while you’re singing. You try

Since the goal is to help educate the masses and shatter stereotypes, Opera on Tap will be singers speak with the audience and at Shine Restaurant & Gathering Place on attempt to communicate the mood Tuesday, Dec. 11, at 7:30 or setting of a particular piece of p.m. Tickets are $10. 2027 music. While large concert halls 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0120. and opera houses can present challenges to singers negotiating their sound to an audience, intimate bar settings allow performers more flexibility. It doesn’t hurt to only charge $10 and let people drink if they choose. “We certainly encourage our audience to have a drink or two, but I don’t think you necessarily need to,” Stephenson says. “It’s not a comedy club. There’s not a twodrink minimum.” While billed as strictly opera, the holiday show does stray from traditional arias to include Christmas carols, oratorios like Handel’s Messiah, holiday-themed art songs and maybe even a few show tunes. Bottom line is there will be something for everyone. Musical accompaniment comes from a house piano and a hodgepodge of members of the Opera on Tap Drunkestra — minstrels paid only in beer. “This is just performing music for the love of it,” Orenstein says. “It’s not only going to be holiday music, it’s going to be singers getting up and singing what they love.” Regarding the need to grow the genre for new generations, Stephenson says liberties need to be taken with tradition. “We encourage people to be as aloof with the theme as possible. Classical music is something you should respect, but I can’t help but think that maybe we turn some people off in that way. not to get too focused on that, but it’s nice as a perClassical music was never meant to be stuffy.” former to see someone in the audience smile and be “I think that putting opera at a lower price point and able to get confidence from it.” putting it in a bar environment gets new people in the “This breaks down the walls between musician and door, it lets them enjoy the music in an environment audiences completely,” Orenstein says. “We always they may feel a little more comfortable in,” Stephenson have people who come to the show because they were says. “Because of some of the venues we perform in, dragged there, but appreciate the voices after listenwe’re getting a lot of people in their 20s and 30s through ing.” the door, and they seem to be enjoying it.” Razón sees Opera on Tap Colorado as a way to What’s not to enjoy? One of Boulder’s unique venues, develop community while spreading the outreach of food and drink aplenty, and a hearty group of singers putopera into areas previously untouched by the culture. ting their instruments on the line should be enough to “Opera is still very niche,” Razón says of a form entertain the most discerning patron of the arts. that the majority of Americans have never heard. “I think it’s going to be a pretty incredible perfor“There’s just a certain percentage of people who are not mance,” Razón says. going to see this art unless they are sitting in a bar.” And she says that since Shine is more gathering Niche or not, love of music doesn’t necessarily stop place than bar, “we are able to have a younger audionce you perch atop a barstool. Opera in a pub is a ence, so I would invite anyone who wants to come to long way from Garth Brooks and a billiards table, but take advantage of the event.” it still needs to sound good in order for people to stay. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com ON THE BILL:

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assist Chris Wood was taking some midday chill time in Athens, Ga., when we caught up to him last weekend, cooling his heels before his gig that night with The Wood Brothers band, his six-year project with his brother, guitarist and singer Oliver. The Wood Brothers project, which started out as an impromptu jam session at a family reunion in 2004 and eventually blossomed into a multialbum, multi-tour project mining roots and folk stylings, has kept Wood busy much of the year, with two live releases this year alone and a recently completed tour leg opening for British rock icon Steve Winwood. “We decided to kind of re-release some of the material from the first record we did, Ways Not To Lose, that was recorded kind of spare, just as a duo,” he explains. “We’ve been touring the last year and a half with our drummer, Jano Rix, from Nashville, so a lot of our old material now has been fleshed out with drums and a third harmony part, and Jano also plays some keyboards. … So it’s a fuller sound. “It feel likes a natural evolution for us. … It’s been great having Jano, not only playing drums and singing, but he’s a great keyboard player as well. We feel like we’re just scratching the surface still.” But what brings Wood to Boulder this weekend, his and Oliver’s homeBoulder Weekly

town, is one of two Colorado gigs that pairs his longtime alt-jazz trio band — Medeski, Martin and Wood — with guitarist John Scofield. Scofield has recorded and played with MMW on and off since the late 1990s. While he is commonly known as one of a long list of guitarists who recorded and toured with Miles Davis during the trumpet player’s late-career fusion and post-fusion period, Scofield has quietly built a reputation as a thoughtful, spontaneous and abundantly collaborative player in his own right. A solid and marksman-like soloist in the pocket, Scofield can also settle in with eerie fluency amidst MMW’s rangy and impressionistic funk and sideways-blues excursions, fully capable of grounding the trio or chasing them around the ether. MMW’s music has always occupied a restless and irregularly lit musical space — Scofield plays into that space, where a lesser player, someone who may have learned the wrong lessons from post-Bitches Brew jazz fusion, might simply be satisfied soloing his ass off over it. “He’s a great fit,” Wood says, “he just makes it effortless. We don’t have to think about it, we don’t talk about it much. He has a lot of the same sensibilities, both rhythmically, with the kind of groove and New Orleans stuff he was influenced by, as well as the see WOOD Page 29

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s a longtime fan of Oscar Wilde, the corners of my mouth go instantly north whenever I hear that some industrious theatre company is mounting one of his plays. Though he is principally known as a poet or for his single, inimitable novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Wilde’s plays showcase some of his most creative, quotable writing. Galen Pereira plays Gerald Arbuthnot For the uninitiated, and Kristy E Pike plays Hester Worsley in A Woman of No Importance. think of him as a more incisive, wittier Jon Stewart or Stephen Colbert, a social commentator who did it all on his own without the benefit of the Internet or an entire staff of writers. Wilde was ahead of his time and in many ways a man apart when he A Woman of No Importance takes place almost penned such treasures as An Ideal Husband, Lady entirely at the country estate of Lady Hunstanton Windermere’s Fan and The Importance of Being Earnest. (Prema Rose). The Lady is hosting numerous guests, During the same highly productive period in the late including a handful of socialites, Lady Pontefract ( Joan 19th century, he also scribed the Victorian melomedy Kuder Bell), Mrs. Allonby (Dana Padgett) and Lady (that’s “melodramatic comedy” for all the logophiles Stutfield (Anna Rhea Vernier), a young American on playing at home), A Woman of No Importance. Boulder’s holiday, Hester Worsley (Kristy E. Pike), a somewhat Upstart Crow Theatre Company brings this play to the dour member of the House of Commons, Mr. Kelvil Dairy Center for the Arts for a brief, pre-holiday run. (Russ Nielson) and a roguish member of the House of Like much of Wilde’s work, A Woman of No Lords, Lord Illingworth (Robert Mitchell). Importance skewers upper-class British society, puts a Lord Illingworth offers to make provincial bank heavy emphasis on the never-ending, often ridiculous clerk Gerald Arbuthnot (Galen Pereira) his private secdance between the sexes and contains more quotable retary and take him off on lavish adventures around the lines than an entire season of Saturday Night Live. Here globe. Arbuthnot leaps at the opportunity, but soon a are but a few gems to whet your appetite: “Moderation is secret surfaces that may endanger not only the tantaliza fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.” “I adore sim- ing position but also the most important relationships ple pleasures. They are the last refuge of the complex.” in his life. All of this occurs against the backdrop of And last, but certainly not least, the description of much mischievous discussion — primarily among the women as “Sphinxes without secrets.” women-folk and Lord Illingworth — about the nature

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ON THE BILL: A Woman of No Importance is presented by the Upstart Crow Theatre Company at the Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St. in Boulder. The show runs through Dec. 15. Tickets are $17-$20. For tickets or information, call 303442-1415 or visit www. theupstartcrow.org.

of life, love and yes, even sex. Just to keep the pot boiling, there is also a Les Liaisons dangereuses-style bet between Mrs. Allonby and Lord Illingworth about whether Illingworth will be able to steal a kiss from the Puritan Ms. Worsley. And when the Big Secret is finally revealed it is less a climax than a segue into a subsection of the play dealing with societal double standards and familial intrigue. One of the greatest writers of the 19th, or any, century, Wilde provides excellent source material with A Woman of No Importance. Even with its modest budget — there is only one set change in the entire show — and mostly semi-professional cast, Upstart Crow gets a leg up from the choice of play itself. The finished product, while by no means award-worthy, is suitably competent and deserves an audience if only to expose more people to the wonders of Wilde. A few performances deserve special note. Given the lion’s share of Wilde’s witticisms, Lord Illingworth propels much of the play, and Mitchell suits the character well. In a more supporting role, Bell plays Lady Pontefract with a wonderful mix of snobbishness and insecurity. As a sort of female Illingworth, Mrs. Allonby must be played forcefully yet effortlessly, and Padgett achieves that difficult mix on more than one occasion. By far, though, the loudest applause belongs to Vernier as Lady Stutfield. Giving easily the most naturalistic performance, Vernier takes a small role and goes big with it. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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more jazz, line“He’s got such Medeski Scofield Martin Wood plays playing stuff he a slinky way of the Ogden Theater on Friday, Dec. did with Miles playing — he’s an 7, at 9 p.m. Must be 16 to enter. Tickets are $29.95 in advance, $35 that we were incredible line day of show. The group plays the influenced by, all player, so this Boulder Theater on Saturday, Dec. us being big combination of 8, at 8 p.m. Tickets are $32.50 in advance, $35 day of show. Visit Miles Davis fans. this great rhythm www.mmw.net for more info. With John, it’s and groove sensigreat, he just bility along with brings all of that the great jazz together. lines he’s known for, just makes it fun “As a rhythm section, I think we’re for us.” good for him because we can play the It seems a little hard to grasp, and grooves and go in that direction, but actually seemed a little hard for Wood also kind of live out our ’70s-electrichimself to grasp when we reminded Miles-Davis-fusion fantasies. him of it, that MMW is already in its Boulder Weekly

third decade, an astonishing accomplishment for a trio without anything resembling a hit record (and over those 20 years, even the very definition of a “hit” has evolved). Wood takes a long view. “It’s amazing to see how the music industry has changed over the last 20 years. And the way we toured — like the fact we were touring before there were cell phones, how out of touch we were with each other. I mean, everything was done on payphones. “And the fact that people used to actually spend money on recorded music. You used to be able to make a

living, or at least a better living, selling recorded music. Which today is almost impossible unless you’re really huge, but even if for the people who have a big hit, they’re selling much, much less than they used to. … So of course, everyone’s got to tour, which means the touring market is over-saturated. With so many bands touring, it makes the live business harder. “And these things are still changing all the time, like the social media thing. The younger players all grew up with it, and I think they tend to be better at it. I’m still kind of learning it.” Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com December 6, 2012 29

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SEE FULL PANORAMA LISTINGS ONLINE Thursday, December 6 music Adam Bodine Trio. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696. Ash & Andria Ganley. 5:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids & Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400. Dead Winter Carpenters — With Musketeer Gripweed. 8 p.m. Shine, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0120. Diiki Du & The Zydeco Krewe from New Orleans. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303823-6685. The Feral West — With Paul Honeycutt. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628. Green Genes. 10:30 p.m. The Walrus, 1911 11th St., Boulder, 303-443-9902. Horse Feathers — With Frank Fairfield and Patrick Dethlefs. 8:30 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-3399. Jeff Brinkman Band — CD release. 8:30 p.m. West Flanders Brewing Company, 1125 Pearl St., Boulder, 303447-2739. Jimmy Seville — With Mojoville. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel, 800 28th St., Boulder, 303-443-3322. Smack Thompson. 10 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922.

events 8 — A staged reading of Dustin Lance Black's new documentary-style play. 7 p.m. Out Boulder at Nomad Theatre, 1410 Quince Ave., Boulder, 303-499-5777. Fine Art Market and Annual ACES Show Opening Reception — 12-5 p.m. Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities, 6901 Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada, 720-8987200. Through Dec. 16. Free Pilates. 8:45 a.m. Athleta, 1133 Pearl Street, Boulder, 303-443-9237.

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Holiday RAWk — with Denver RAW Artists. 7 p.m. Casselmann’s Bar & Venue, 2620 Walnut St., Denver, 303-775-4543. Holiday Reception — for the Colorado Trail Foundation. 4 p.m. American Mountaineering Center, 710 10th St., Golden, ctf@coloradotrail.org.

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music Bonnie & The Clydes. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids & Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303485-9400. Cheryl Wheeler — With Steve Law. 8 p.m. Swallow Hill. 71 E. Yale Ave., Denver, 303-777-1003. Dikki Du — Zydeco Krewe. 8 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel, 800 28th St., Boulder, 303-443-3322. Ethyl & The Regulars. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685. Goldensole — With Ed McGee, Ward Scott. 8:30 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683. Holiday Festival — Featuring University of Colorado Boulder's College of Music choirs, orchestra, ensembles and faculty soloists. 7:30 p.m. Macky Auditorium, 1595 Pleasant St., Boulder, 303-492-4247. Last Men on Earth. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 N. Park Dr., Lafayette, 303-665-2757. Monocle. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733. Perpetual Groove — With Springdale Quartet. 8:30 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-3399. Pete Kartsounes Band. 10 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922. Rachel and The Ruckus — With Jim Herlihy. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628. The Railsplitters. 9 p.m. Gold Hill Inn, 401 Main St., Boulder, 303-443-6461. Red Tail Ring. 5:30 p.m. Upslope Brewing Company, 1501

Lee Hill Road, Boulder, 303-449-2911.

Healing Sanctuary. 7 p.m. Adi Shakti Kundalini Yoga Center of Boulder, 2014 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-252-3962. KGNU Art Reception. 5 p.m. KGNU, 4700 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-449-4883. Niwot Native American Film Festival — Reservation Soldiers. 7:30 p.m. Elysian Fields Auction Co., 6924 79th St., Niwot, 303-931-3084. The Nutcracker — Presented by Ballet Nouveau Colorado. 7:30 p.m. Pinnacle Charter School, 1001 W. 84th Ave., Denver, 303-466-5685.

Sambadende. 7 p.m. St Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696.

Out Boulder Holiday Open House. 5 p.m. Out Boulder, 2132 14th St., Boulder, 303-499-5777.

Silver Creek High School’s Annual Madrigal Feast. 6:30 p.m. Silver Creek High School, 4901 Nelson Road, Longmont, http://scopanews.org.

Pre-Assembled — Art, glass, paint and mixed media open studio. 7 p.m. Art Mind Collective Glass Studio, 4417 N. Broadway, Boulder, 303-440-1449.

Sound Circle Solstice — With Beth Quist. 7 p.m. Columbine Unity Church, 8900 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 800-838-3006.

Sagittarius Party. 9 p.m. Shine, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0120.

Tim Crawford. 9 p.m. Waterloo, 809 S. Main St., Louisville, 303-993-2094. Tom Weiser and Paul Fowler Jazz Duo. 7:30 p.m. Caffè Sole, 637R S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-499-2985. The Yawpers. 8 p.m. The Dickens Tavern, 300 Main St. Longmont, 303-834-9384.

Valtari — Sigur Rós’ film experiment. 7 p.m. Cherryvale Studios, 1166 Cherryvale Road, Boulder, www. communikey.us. Winter Star Party — Telescope viewing of Orion, Taurus and the Pleiades. 7 p.m. Boulder Valley Ranch, www. naturehikes.org.

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1940s White Christmas Ball. 6 p.m. Wings Over the Rockies Air and Space Museum, 7711 E. Academy Blvd., Denver, www.1940sball.com.

Blue Mountain Ranchhands. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685.

B.L.A.M. — Beer Local Art + Music. 5:30 p.m. Prana, 1147 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-449-2199.

Blues Mafia. 4:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Tasty Weasel Tap Room, 1800 Pike Road, Unit B, Longmont, 303-776-1914 x313.

Fambul Tok — A documentary on the healing power of foregiveness. 7 p.m. The Caritas Spiritist Center, 5723 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-449-3066.

Bonnie and the Clydes. 8 p.m. Jamestown Mercantile, 108 Main St., Jamestown, 303-442-5847.

Frequent Flyers Productions: Ratcracker. 7 p.m. The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303440-7826.

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Chief Niwot: Legend & Legacy. Boulder History Museum, 1206 Euclid Ave., Boulder, 303449-3464. Through Feb. 10. Cover Story — Works by Daniel Pitín. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-2122. Through Jan. 27. Dana Schutz: If the Face had Wheels. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave., Denver, 720865-5000. Through Feb 13. El Anatsui: When I Last Wrote to You about Africa. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave., Denver, 720-865-5000. Through Dec. 30. The Eye Awake — New works by Ian Fisher and Matthew Harris. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art at Macky Auditorium, 1595 Pleasant St., Boulder, 303-443-2122. Through Jan. 2. Histories from Eight Rectilinear Boundar-

ies — Annaday Hiser. Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut, Boulder, 303-444-7328. Liminality, Luminosity and the Everyday — Selections from CU’s painting collection. CU Art Museum, CU campus, Boulder, 303-492-8300. Through Dec. 22. Random Walk with Drift — Works by Marius Lehene. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-2122. Through Jan. 27. Reunion: What Made You Start Again? — By Jessica Knapp, Mary Pat LaMair, Christopher Lavery, Katie Queen, Polly Gates Simmons and Lori Warren. Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut, Boulder, 303-444-7328. Soma — Works in felt. Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut, Boulder, 303-444-7328. Women of Influence: Colorado Artists and Curators; Intimate Dialogue: Seven Women, Seven Voices; La Mexicana; Female Icons in Mexican Culture. Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities, 6901 Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada, 720-898-7200. Through Dec. 16.

PANORAMA from Page 31 Hindsight. 8 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel, 800 28th St., Boulder, 303-443-3322.

Soul School. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s Bistro, 2675 N. Park Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757.

Holden Young Trio. 10 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922.

Sound Circle Solstice — With Beth Quist. 7 p.m. Columbine Unity Church, 8900 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 800-838-3006.

Holiday Festival — Featuring University of Colorado Boulder's College of Music choirs, orchestra, ensembles and faculty soloists. 4 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. Macky Auditorium, 1595 Pleasant St., Boulder, 303-492-4247. The Jake Leg Shakers — With Wonderlic (with Adam DeGraff). 6 p.m. St Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696.

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Strangebyrds with The Ponyups. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.

events Class for Psychic Teens. 1 p.m. Register for location, 303-435-9267.

Jeff Brinkman Band. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids & Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303485-9400.

Frequent Flyers Productions: Ratcracker. 2 p.m. The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303440-7826.

Jon Hogan String Band. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733.

Free Yoga. 8:45 a.m. Athleta, 1133 Pearl Street, Boulder, 303-443-9237.

Medeski, Scofield, Martin and Wood. 7 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030.

Gingerbread Teas. 12 p.m. St Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696.

A Midwinter Collage — Christmas with Ars Nova Singers. 7:30 p.m. St. John’s Episcopal Church, 1419 Pine St., Boulder, 303-499-3165.

Holiday Tea — With music by the Yuletide Carolers of Julie’s Studio. 12 p.m. Hotel Boulderado, 2115 13th St., Boulder, 303-442-4344.

Monocle Stache — With Pretty Girl. 9 p.m. The World Famous Dark Horse Bar and Grill, 2922 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-442-8162.

Home for the Holidays — With Santa, caroling, historic homes tour. 12 p.m. Festival Plaza, 311 S. Public Road, Lafayette, www.oldtownlafayette.com.

Never Shout Never — With William Beckett, Anarbor, Me Like Bees. 6 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-3399.

Kirtan — With Prem Sangha Band. 7 p.m. Adi Shakti Kundalini Yoga Center of Boulder, 2014 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-252-3962.

Pelta-Tiller Duo — With David and Enion from Taarka. 7:30 p.m. Caffè Sole, 637R S. Broadway, Boulder, 303499-2985.

Lafayette Historic Society Annual Holiday Open House. 10 a.m. – 4 p.m. Lafayette Miners Museum, 108 East Simpson St., 303-665-7030.

The Sal Magundi Show. 6:30 p.m. Shine, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0120.

Longmont Lights. 5 p.m. Roosevelt Park, 700 Longs Peak Ave., Longmont, 303-774-4757.

Silver Creek High School’s Annual Madrigal Feast. 2 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. Silver Creek High School, 4901 Nelson Road, Longmont, http://scopanews.org.

Louisville Parade of Lights. 6 p.m. Chamber of Commerce, 901 Main St., Louisville, 303-666-5747. The Nutcracker — Presented by Ballet Nouveau

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panorama Colorado. 2 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. Pinnacle Charter School, 1001 W. 84th Ave., Denver, 303-466-5685. Past Life Regression Workshop — With Colby Collins. 3:30 p.m. Adi Shakti Kundalini Yoga Center of Boulder, 2014 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-252-3962. St. Nick’s on the Bricks — Free visits with Santa. 11 a.m. – 2 p.m. Downtown Boulder Visitor Information Center, 1301 Pearl St., Boulder, www.boulderdowntown.com. Tibetan Thangka Art Workshop — Drawing the Buddha. 2 p.m. Hamsa Arts, 1919 Spruce St., Boulder, 303-4495030. Winter Star Party — Telescope viewing of Orion, Taurus and the Pleiades. 7 p.m. Boulder Valley Ranch, www. naturehikes.org. The Yugas, or Cyclic Nature of Time — With Yogacharya Dharmananda. 7 p.m. The Caritas Spiritist Center, 5723 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-449-3066.

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Blues Jam — With Heavy Cats. Players welcome. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel, 800 28th St., Boulder, 303443-3322. Thursday, December 6 Poetry Reading — Daniel Grandbois. 7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore, 1203 13th St., Ste. A, Boulder, 303579-1644. Stalin’s Barber — By Paul Levitt. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-3946.

A Collaborative Community Holiday Music Performance. 7 p.m. Shine, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-4490120. David Williams Trio. 5 p.m. Gold Hill Inn, 401 Main St., Boulder, 303-443-6461. Felonius Smith. 6 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids & Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400.

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Engines — With Henscratch. 7 p.m. The Dickens Tavern, 300 Main St., Longmont, 303-834-9384.

CU Introductory Fiction Reading. 7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore, 1203 13th St., Ste. A, Boulder, 303579-1644.

Holiday Festival — Featuring University of Colorado Boulder’s College of Music choirs, orchestra, ensembles and faculty soloists. 4 p.m. Macky Auditorium, CU campus, 303-443-0028.

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Poetry Reading — Sara, Kevin, Sofia, Peyton and Alison. 7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore, 1203 13th St., Ste. A, Boulder, 303-579-1644. Sunday, December 9 The Gabby Gourmet 2013 Restaurant Guide — By Pat Miller. 1 p.m. Tattered Cover Book Store, 2526 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303322-7727.

Sound Circle Solstice — With Beth Quist. 5 p.m. Columbine Unity Church, 8900 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 800-838-3006.

Bolder Nights — An evening of local and original theatre, art and music. 7 p.m. Nomad Theatre, 1410 Quince Ave., Boulder, 303-443-7510.

Bacon and Beer Festival. 2:30 p.m. Mile High Station, Denver, www.baconandbeer.net/denver.

Tuesday, December 11

Boulder Holiday Gift Festival. 11 a.m. – 5 p.m. YMCA of Boulder Valley, 2850 Mapleton Ave., Boulder, www.ymcabv.org.

CU Reading. 11 a.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore, 1203 13th St., Ste. A, Boulder, 303-579-1644.

Frequent Flyers Productions: Ratcracker. 2 p.m. The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303440-7826.

The Discovery of the South Pole — Active Minds Lecture by Roald Amundsen. 12:30 p.m. Tattered Cover Book Store, 9315 Dorchester St., Highlands Ranch, 303-470-7050.

Gingerbread Teas. 12 p.m. St Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696.

Wednesday, December 12 Colorado Powder Keg — By Michael Childers. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-3946.

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Skanson & Hanson's Winter of Love Holiday Show. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s Bistro, 2675 N. Park Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757.

Monday, December 10

Weekly Open Poetry Reading. 7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore, 1203 13th St., Ste. A, Boulder, 303-579-1644.

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Friday, Dec. 28 – 7:45pm

Punch Brothers — With The Milk Carton Kids. 7 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030.

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Life, Liberty and Resilience: A Man’s War on Three Fronts — By Steffan Tubbs. 7:30 p.m. Tattered Cover Book Store, 1628 16th St., Denver, 303-436-1070.

Saturday, Dec. 15 – 8:00pm

Kaia Nutting — With Jeoff Harris. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.

Net of Being — By Alex Grey. 5:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-3946. So, You’re a Poet? — Open poetry reading. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffee House, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.

Saturday, December 8 – 8:00pm

The Nutcracker — Presented by Ballet Nouveau Colorado. 2 p.m. Pinnacle Charter School, 1001 W. 84th Ave., Denver, 303-466-5685. Nutcracker Tea — Benefit for the Boulder Ballet. 12 p.m. Hotel Boulderado, 2115 13th St., Boulder, 303-442-4344. Permaculture Potluck. 4 p.m. The Lyons Farmette, 4121 Ute Highway, Lyons, 303-746-6266. Shakti Goddess Grove — With Willow Arlenea. 1:45 p.m. Adi Shakti Kundalini Yoga Center of Boulder, 2014 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-252-3962.

Monday, December 10 events Pricing and Selling Wedding and Portrait Photography, Part 2. 6 p.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., see PANORAMA Page 34

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Mame. Candlelight Dinner Playhouse, 4747 Marketplace Dr., Johnstown, 970-744-3747. Through Jan. 13.

Dixie’s Tupperware Party. Denver Performing Arts Complex Galleria Theatre, 14th and Curtis streets, Denver, 303-893-4100. Through

A Doll’s House — Presented by Byers-Evans House Theatre Company. Byers-Evans House Museum, 1310 Bannock St., Denver, 303620-4933. Through Dec. 16. Greetings — Presented by Miners Alley Playhouse. 1224 Washington Ave., Golden, 303-935-3044. Through Dec. 23. Irving Berlin’s White Christmas —

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Sacred Heart Bookfair. 4 p.m. Barnes & Noble, 2999 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-444-0349.

Bluegrass Pick. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685.

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Hanukkah Celebration with Boulder Jewish Community Center. 11 a.m. WOW! Children’s Museum, 110 N. Harrison Ave., Lafayette, 303-604-2424.

David Booker Blues Band. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s Bistro, 2675 N. Park Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757.

Mountain View Preschool Bookfair. 9 a.m. Barnes & Noble, 2999 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-444-0349.

Gasoline Lollipops. 9:30 p.m. Waterloo, 809 S. Main St., Louisville, 303-993-2094.

Ryan Elementary Bookfair. 4 p.m. Barnes & Noble, 2999 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-444-0349.

Opera on Tap — Holiday Extravaganza. 9 p.m. Shine, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0120.

Spanish with Kena. 10 a.m. WOW! Children’s Museum, 110 N. Harrison Ave., Lafayette, 303-604-2424.

Ron LeGault Trio. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696.

Saturday, December 8

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Homemade Greeting Cards. 11 a.m. WOW! Children’s Museum, 110 N. Harrison Ave., Lafayette, 303-604-2424.

Wednesday, December 12

Bear Creek Bookfair. 1 p.m. Barnes & Noble, 2999 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-444-0349.

Bonnie Lowdermilk. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696. The Boulder Blues Trio. 7:30 p.m. Caffè Sole, 637R S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-499-2985. New Breed Dance Company Cabaret. 7 p.m. & 9 p.m. Nissi’s Bistro, 2675 N. Park Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757.

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Community Montessori Book Fair. 10 a.m. Barnes & Noble, 2999 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-444-0349.

Jose Antonio Vargas — Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and founder of DefineAmerican.com. 6:30 p.m. Glenn Miller Ballroom, University Memorial Center, CU campus, Boulder, www.colorado.edu/ceb.

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Blues Jam with Al Chesis and Special Guests. Players welcome. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel, 800 28th St., Boulder, 303-443-3322.

Sunday, December 9

Tallie’s Christmas Surprise — By Elaine Pease. 11 a.m. Barnes & Noble, 2999 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-444-0349.

Monday, December 10 Eldorado K-8 Bookfair. 4 p.m. Barnes & Noble, 2999 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-444-0349.

Tuesday, December 11

Of Monsters and Men — With Elle King. 8 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-998-9412.

Bilingual Spanish/English Storytime. 10:15 a.m. Boulder Public Library. 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Sharon & Grant. 6 p.m. The Dickens Tavern, 300 Main St. Longmont, 303-834-9384.

Columbine Elementary Bookfair. 1 p.m. Barnes & Noble, 2999 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-444-0349.

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Wednesday, December 12

Budrus — Palestinian Lives Film Series. 7 p.m. Duane Physics Building, room G1B20, CU-Boulder campus.

Catalyst High School Bookfair. 4 p.m. Barnes & Noble, 2999 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-444-0349.

Hoopy Hour. 5 p.m. Shine, 2017 13th St., Boulder, www. shineboulder.com.

Cruisers and Crawlers. 10:15 a.m. Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

The Maharaja Avery Tap Room Release Party — With Bollywood films and Indian cuisine. 5 p.m. Avery Tap Room, 5757 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-440-4324.

Watercolor Wednesday. 10 a.m. WOW! Children’s Museum, 110 N. Harrison Ave., Lafayette, 303-604-2424.

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Hawkes’ virginity Hunt-ed  ‘The Sessions’ is sweetly sexual by Ryan Syrek

Falling down 12 steps  ‘Smashed’ updates our alcoholic narrative  by Ryan Syrek

he ubiquitous hyperbolic after-school-special type of dramatization of the perils of alcoholism has lost its teeth; it no longer delivers a social bite so much as it gets drool everywhere. Thus, in many ways, what Smashed wanted to do is something necessary, as we need a reboot of our cultural cautionary tale that ditches the wailing melodrama in favor of the muted reality of modern addiction. Mary Elizabeth Winstead plays Kate Hannah, a dowdy grade-school teacher who dresses like she raided Laura Ingalls Wilder’s closet and drinks herself daffy every night. This actually isn’t a depressing kind of debauchery but a lifestyle she shares with her writer husband, Charlie (Aaron Paul). They actually seem to be having a pretty great time, right up until Kate upchucks in the general proximity of the trashcan in front of her students. In that barfy moment, a lie is born, as Kate tells the kids she’s pregnant, much to the glee of Principal Barnes (Megan Mullally). Then she goes out that night and smokes crack. OK, so there’s a little over-the-top melodrama. The crack moment finally breaks Kate, who acquiesces to an invitation from her colleague, Dave (Nick Offerman), to join his AA group, where she meets her future sponsor, Jenny (Octavia Spencer). But as it turns out, it’s really hard for one half of a pair of alcoholics to sober up without the cooperation of the other. It’d be like if Cheech tried to do Shakespeare while Chong kept making “what’s in the brownie” jokes. Although Offerman gives it his goateed best and Spencer reminds us that her role in The Help was shameless award-baiting that worked, this is all about Winstead. Her ability to deftly shift from near rom-com quirkiness to raw, brutal honesty keeps Smashed from finding a future home on Lifetime. Writer/director James Ponsoldt and writer Susan Burke were wise to show the rarely examined destructive spiral that often befalls young couples who met and fell in love beneath shared bourbon. But beyond that they didn’t really give Winstead much more to work with. The pacing is stunted, subplots like the one in which Dave says the word moist in its worst possible context feel wonky, and the payoff, while true to life, feels pretty unsatisfying. Was it not for Winstead proving she’s capable of the type of overt emotional expression and nuanced subtlety that most actresses her age can only pout about, Smashed would have been marginally useful and wholly forgettable. If it seems weird that Paul’s role hasn’t come up more in this review, it seemed weirder that he didn’t come up more in the movie. The actor appeared game but disappeared for long stretches, as the motivations for his reticence to join a wife he loves were unsatisfyingly spelled out in shorthand. The result is a pretty solid character sketch of Kate that could have been a powerful reimagining of a subject that’s been go-to melodrama for decades. Still, Winstead is quite worth it, the concept isn’t totally botched, and Smashed returns all investments in its itty-bitty run time. —This review first appeared in The Reader of Omaha, Neb. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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merica’s Puritanical origins mean that “sweetly sexual” may sound oxymoronic, but that phrase absolutely defines The Sessions, the softest and kindest movie to ever feature a star of Mad About You buck nekkid. Although nudity being “integral to the role” is a con that lecherous producers love to peddle to starlets drowning in Hollywood’s misogynistic subculture, this is a film legitimately predicated on preaching a comfort with physical human intimacy and determined to dispel shame. Turns out, nudity isn’t inherently exploitive; go figure. Based on the real experiences of Mark O’Brien, a man immobilized due to polio at a young age, The Sessions is first and foremost John Hawkes’ declaration he’s had it with background roles and is ready to play with the big boys. Had he picked any year in which Daniel Day-Lewis did not play Abraham Lincoln, which is literally all of the other years, he’d be a shoo-in for the Best Actor Oscar, as this is the type of role the Academy drools over. His co-star, Helen Hunt, is likely to be more fortunate, as Oscar has a sweet tooth for “hookers with a heart of gold,” and “sex surrogate” is close enough. Hunt plays Cheryl, a woman whose job involves sexually interacting with the disabled in the hopes of enabling them to engage in such behavior in their future relationships. To minimize emotional issues, a maximum of six sessions are allowed, no matter what. The “what,” as you’d expect, involves deeper feelings Cheryl and Mark develop, which isn’t to say their relationship is stale rom-com cheese. Far from it; the sophisticated physical and emotional entanglement between the two is perhaps the year’s best. Most of the film is told in quasi-flashback style, with Mark confessing to Father Brendan (William H. Macy), the kind of Catholic priest who smokes cigarettes, drinks beer and tells Mark that Jesus would look the other way on someone like him paying a woman to “get biblical.” Writer/ director Ben Lewin, whose last directing experience was almost a decade ago with an episode of TV’s Touched by an Angel, bravely moves into a very, very different type of touching. Without making sex sound overly medical and sterile or decadent and depraved, which are normally the options, Lewin uses intercourse as an exploration of the self and of love. Most surprisingly, the film resists the urge to cash in its melodramatic elements for a cheap payday, choosing instead to thoughtfully ruminate on what makes a life complete. So what keeps The Sessions from the upper echelon of films in one of cinema’s best years on record? A combination of its somewhat-too-casual approach and its aesthetic confinements. The acting shines, but everything looks like, well, an episode of TV’s Touched by an Angel. Then there’s the fact that there is a one-note theme harped on for the film’s duration; even if that note is pitch perfect, there’s a reason we prefer more in our melodies. The Sessions is a triumph for a subdued Hawkes and a brave Hunt, who confidently uses her nude body as an acting instrument to help reinforce her character’s belief that sexuality need not be dirty. To walk out of a movie with a man largely confined to an iron lung feeling cheerful and liberated is a pretty impressive cinematic session. —This review was first published in The Reader of Omaha, Neb. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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12 GIFTS OF CHRISTMAS Captured live from the 12 Gifts tour, this event will feature musical performances from notable artists like Steven Curtis Chapman and Laura Story. Speakers Patsy Clairmont, Luci Swindoll, Marilyn Meberg and Mary Beth Chapman along with comedienne Anita Renfroe will be present to entertain the crowd. At Century.

A LATE QUARTET When the beloved cellist of a worldrenowned string quartet receives a life changing diagnosis, the group’s future suddenly hangs in the balance: suppressed emotions, competing egos, and uncontrollable passions threaten to derail years of friendship and collaboration. Rated R. At Chez Artiste. –– Landmark Theatres

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Leo Tolstoy’s classic novel of love and infidelity comes to life thanks to director Joe Wright. A unique narrative device illuminates the theatrical behavior of the randy Russian nobles who can’t seem to help trying to sleep with each other’s spouses. In the end, it’s a costume drama, with a Masterpiece Theatre feel, but fans of the novel and the genre will enjoy this version. Rated R. At Century and Esquire. –– The Reader of Omaha Neb.

Beth Raymer is an intense, excited, beautiful girl with a huge heart who gives up stripping in Florida to realize her dream: to become a cocktail waitress in Las Vegas. When she doesn’t land a job, she lucks into meeting Dink, an idiosyncratic sports gambler who sees potential and ability under Beth’s bubbly exterior. At Sie FilmCenter. –– Denver Film Society

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Start the holiday season right with a treacly film that tugs not on your find-the-love-of-your-life heart strings, but the reunite-your-divorced-parents ones.

ALIEN One of the scariest sci-fi thrillers ever made stars Signourey Weaver as an officer whose entire crew is menaced by unstoppable, insect-like xenomorphs, unwittingly brought on board their spacecraft after responding to a mysterious distress signal. At Esquire. — Landmark Theatres ARGO Ben Affleck’s latest directing project (in which he also stars) is based on true events from the Iranian revolution in 1979. Militants storm the U.S. embassy and take 52 Americans hostage, six Americans escape to the home of a Canadian ambassador. A CIA agent comes forward to get them out of the country before they’re found. Rated R. At Colony Square and Century. BILL W. Bill W. tells the story of William G. Wilson, co-founder of Alcholics Anonymous, a man included in TIME magazine’s “100 Persons of the 20th Century.” At Chez Artiste. –– Landmark Theatres. CHASING ICE Acclaimed National Geographic photographer James Balog was once a skeptic about climate change. But through his Extreme Ice Survey, he discovers undeniable evidence of our changing planet. At Century, Chez Artiste and Boedecker –– Landmark Theatres CLOUD ATLAS

This overly ambitious tale covers six stories written and directed by three people and multiple actors in multiple roles. Tom Hanks, Halle Berry, Jim Broadbent, Jim Sturgess and Hugo Weaving attempt to share intersecting tales of humanity and spirituality, some of which involve intergalactic travel and a cloned Asian woman who becomes a deity. The best art is unafraid to fail. This is definitely art. — The Reader of Omaha, Neb. Rated R. At Century. 38 December 6, 2012

CITADEL Tommy Crowley is a young father inflicted with chronic agoraphobia since his wife was brutally attacked by a gang of a twisted feral children. Trapped in the dilapidated suburbia of Edenstown, he finds himself terrorized by the same gang who now seem intent on taking his baby daughter. At Sie FilmCenter. –– Denver Film Society THE COLLECTION

The only man known to escape the grips of a pyschopathic serial killer known as “The Collector” is hired to rescue a girl who has also fallen prey to him. Rated R. At Colony Square. THE COMEDY

On the cusp of inheriting his father’s estate, Swanson is a man with unlimited options. An aging hipster in Brooklyn, he spends his days in aimless recreation with like-minded friends in games of comic irreverence and mock sincerity. At Sie FilmCenter. –– Denver Film Society END OF WATCH

packed mystery thriller as a seasoned pilot who saves his plane after a mid-air disaster, rescuing almost all his passengers. He’s dubbed a hero but the plane’s malfunctions reveal something different. Rated R. At Colony Square, Century and Twin Peaks.

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Head Games tells the story of football player and wrestler Chris Nowinski’s quest to uncover the truth about the consequence of sports related head injuries. At Sie FilmCenter. –– Denver Film Society HITCHCOCK

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Lurking behind Alfred Hitchcock — cinema’s “master of suspense” and the extraordinary film icon known for orchestrating some of the most intense experiences of menace and intrigue audiences have ever seen — was his hidden side: his creatively explosive romance with his steadfast wife and filmmaking collaborator, Alma Reville. At Mayan. –– Landmark Theatres

This is all about the creation of the penny. OK, kidding. This is Daniel Day-Lewis proving he’s the best there is (maybe ever) embodying the emancipatory president as he works to get the 13th Amendment through a divided Congress in the midst of war. Rated PG-13. At Colony Square, Century and Twin Peaks. — The Reader of Omaha, Neb.

HEAD GAMES

HOLY MOTORS Over the course of a single day, Monsieur Oscar travels by limousine around Paris to a series of nine “appointments,” transforming into new characters or incarnations at each stop. At Chez Artiste and Sie FilmCenter. –– Landmark Theatres

THE FLAT

KILLING THEM SOFTLY

In his award-winning, emotionally riveting documentary, writer/director Arnon Goldfinger follows the hints his Israeli grandparents left behind to investigate longburied family secrets and unravel the mystery of their painful past. At Chez Artiste. –– Landmark Theatres

Amped-up violence meets political and economic commentary in this adaptation of George Higgins’ novel Cogan’s Trade, directed by Andrew Dominik. Brad Pitt plays chill hit man Jackie Cogan, who has been hired to catch three guys who have decided to rob a Mob-protected card game. Rated R. At Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks.

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Thirty-five, newly single and uninspired by his job, Jesse Fisher (writer/director Josh Radnor) worries that his best days are over. When his favorite college professor invites him to campus to speak at his retirement dinner, Jesse jumps at the chance. At Boedecker. –– Boedecker Theater

A storm ravages a boat carrying a zookeeper’s family and menagerie, and the only survivors are the family’s son, Pi, and a Bengal tiger, coyly named Richard Parker. The film follows the odd couple’s lifeboat as Pi devises ways to stay alive and tame his beastly companion. Shot in 3-D, the film is a visual feast and is an almost certain to receive a Best Picture nomination. Rated PG. At Colony Square, Century and Twin Peaks. — The Reader of Omaha, Neb.

Two young police officers patrol the dangerous streets of south central Los Angeles and capture the action through handheld HD cameras. Rated R. At Century and Twin Peaks.

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MATTHEW BOURNE’S SWAN LAKE Matthew Bourne’s triumphant reinterpretation of Swan Lake at Sadler’s Well in 1995, perhaps best known for replacing the traditional female corps de ballet with a menacing male ensemble. At Boedecker. –– Boedecker Theater. MIDDLE OF NOWHERE Four years earlier, Ruby was a vibrant medical student married to the love of her life, Derek. Now, she makes her way to the maximum security prison on the outskirts of town, where her love now resides. At Sie FilmCenter. — Denver Film Society THE PERKS OF BEING A WALLFLOWER A funny and touching coming-of-age story, The Perks of Being a Wallflower is a modern Boulder Weekly

classic that captures the dizzying highs and crushing lows of growing up. Rated PG-13. At Mayan. — Landmark Theatres PLAYING FOR KEEPS A has-been soccer star decides to turn his life around by reconnecting with his son. His forays into parenting soon lead him to a coaching position on his son’s soccer team — and ensuing chaos from a fleet of soccer moms. Rated PG-13. At Colony Square, Century and Twin Peaks. RED DAWN

In this remake of the 1984 movie, a group of teenagers seeks refuge in the woods and forms a guerrilla group of fighters when their city is attacked by foreign forces. Rated PG-13. At Colony Square, Century and Twin Peaks. RISE OF THE GUARDIANS 3D

Childhood legends such as Santa Claus, Sandman and the Easter Bunny along with Jack Frost team up to protect the imagination and beliefs of children. Rated PG. At Colony Square, Century and Twin Peaks. THE ROLLING STONES: CHARLIE IS MY DARLING

The unseen story of a band becoming a legend, this historic Rolling Stones footage has never been shown in theaters; with 90,000 frames of painstakingly restored optical prints and negatives paired with the original sound tapes and 3-track live recordings of concerts in Ireland. At Boedecker. –– Boedecker Theater THE ROOM

The Room is an electrifying American black comedy about love, passion, betrayal and lies, starring writer/director Tommy Wiseau as a successful banker with a great respect for — and dedication to — the people in his life, especially his future wife Lisa. At Esquire. –– Landmark Theatres SEARCHING FOR SUGAR MAN The incredible and true story of Rodriguez, the greatest ’70’s rock icon who never was. Discovered in a Detroit bar in the late ’60s, he went on to record an album that was supposed to secure his reputation as the greatest recording artist of his generation. At Boedecker. –– Boedecker Theater THE SESSIONS See full review on page 37. At Mayan. –– Landmark Theatres. SKYFALL While Daniel Craig has provided some entertaining moments as the world’s most famous fictional spy, James Bond purists have grumbled that Craig’s two films departed too greatly from the 22-film tradition of the womanizing spy-hero. Skyfall is a return to form for 007. Action, beautiful dames, interesting gadgets and snappy oneliners abound in this thriller. No surprises there. Rated PG-13. At Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks. — The Reader of Omaha, Neb. SMASHED See full review on page 37. Rated R. At Century. –– Landmark Theatres Boulder Weekly

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STARS IN SHORTS An incredible collection of short films featuring Judi Dench, Colin Firth, Keira Knightley and more. This is the first collection of short film to bring you everything you expect when you go to the movie theater. At Boedecker. –– Boedecker Theater TARANTINO XX: PULP FICTION EVENT A celebration of Tarantino’s 20 years in the business by bringing this movie back to the big screen, along with handpicked trailers which influenced his work. At Century. TRADE OF INNOCENTS

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LONGMONT TO IMPROVE ITS LUCK

Lucky’s Market, based in Boulder, will be expanding to Longmont in early 2013. The market, which has been serving Boulder with natural, organic and locally grown food since 2004, gets much of its supply of fruits and vegetables from its own five-acre farm not far from the market’s location. The new store in Longmont will create an estimated 100 new jobs, according to Bo Sharon, owner of Lucky’s Market. The market will be located at what was formerly known as the Parkway Center in Longmont, on the northwest corner of South Pratt Parkway and Ken Pratt Boulevard. The shopping center is currently undergoing a major overhaul and will be renamed the Parkway. Lucky’s Market will be the main anchor of the newly renovated shopping center.

BACON AND BEER … NEED WE SAY MORE?

Denver’s first Bacon and Beer Festival will take place from 2:30 to 5 p.m. on see TIDBITES Page 44

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Food-related smartphone applications aim to connect communities by Adelina Shee

rom banking to baking, there seems to be an app for every activity under the sun. Smartphone applications are available to more than half of cell phone holders in America, and 43 percent of cell phone users today have apps on their phone, according to a study from the Pew Internet Project. Apps for dining are some of the more common, and they’re evolving to become functional across multiple social networking platforms, focusing on communities. Forkly, a Denver-made app aimed to help users explore restaurants and dishes, will be working with other collaborators to present the 2012 Bacon and Beer Festival Dec. 9 at Denver’s Mile High Station. “One of the reasons we started Forkly in Denver was to get the state’s exciting, fast-growing culinary scene on the national map,” says Brady Becker, cofounder of Forkly. “An event like Denver

Bacon and Beer not only celebrates Colorado’s array of talented chefs and brewers, but it’s one that gives Forkly’s regional community the opportunity to discover what local chefs are cooking, to share it with global users, and to simultaneously help fight hunger.” Becker says Forkly could connect people to notable top chefs at restaurants in their area. “One of the cool things is that people actually like to follow those chefs,” he says. “So it creates like a community around the actual person who’s around the food at given restaurants.” Boulder-born food app Splick-it first started as a quick solution to keeping customers from standing in long lines when ordering food or drinks. “It started out as you texting your order, and magically it would charge your account and you’d have your coffee waiting and that was it,” says Linds Panther,

the marketing manager for Splick-it. “And then several years ago, [the company] realized that apps were kind of becoming a big deal, so the company shifted into apps.” Restaurants like Snarf ’s, Tokyo Joe’s, Illegal Pete’s and Moe’s Barbecue all have apps that are powered by Splick-it, and users can order and pay for their food through the app. Panther says that restaurants will also be able to get to know their customers better with the help of Splick-it. “Because you’re ordering with your phone, we start to know who you are as a customer and we can give that information to the brand so that they can create a more tailored experience for you,” he says. Robert Taylor, founder and chairman at Splick-it, adds that social networking plays a big role in the development of the app and company. “We’re the first ones that really integrated the social,” says Taylor. “Being able to share your order with your Facebook friends or your Twitter friends, we view as a really powerful way to start sharing the brands across your friends.” For sociable foodies that rave about Boulder’s wide selection of happy hours, Boulder Happy Hours is an app that meets the demands of this exact crowd. “I’m a big happy hour fan, personally,” says Paul Cox, owner of the Boulder Happy Hours app. “There’s never a place to go to have all the information to find out which bars or restaurants are having specials; there’s other happy hour websites out there but I’ve found that most of them are outdated, the information’s not current and so you’re kinda scrambling around, looking up on Google and stuff.” The app was released two weeks ago, says Cox. It follows his success with the same kind of app for happy hours in Omaha, Neb. “On the app, you can find all the happy hours based on the current day and time and GPS location,” Cox says. “So it will pull the ones that are closest to you and sort them from closest to farsee DINING APPS Page 44

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’m often forced to compromise at Chinese restaurants by eating less authentic fare like sesame chicken and cream cheese wontons — not exactly the stuff of childhood Chinatown dinners. Certainly Lafayette’s Ting’s Place has such dishes available (and I do enjoy them from time to time, just don’t tell my parents), but a closer perusal of the menu shows it also serves Ting’s Place more authentic dishes. 1265 South Venturing out with pal Public Road, Mara, we hit this clean, Lafayette well-lighted place on a 303-666-9559 Saturday night intending to dine on childhood fare reminiscent of family restaurant excursions. Ting’s has the attentive service of a family-owned and -operated spot, with friendly servers who promptly delivered our first course of $5.50 sizeggs, bamboo shoots, pork and scallion zling rice soup with shrimp and chickarrived piping hot, with each ingredient en. The broth had a clean flavor, contributing distinctive flavor and texaccented by crisp-tender veggies and ture. fresh-tasting seafood with appealing The $12.50 spiced duck with texture. Granted, the dunking of the steamed buns was essentially a scaledrice cakes into the soup didn’t produce down Peking duck dish. For some, the violent sizzling sounds I recalled “spiced” may be a misnomer, as this from my youth. But the crackling texture of the rice in the soothing broth was just as I remembered it. he original Chinese mu shu pork dish is a stir fry featuring We were surprised to discover rice wine, wood ear mushrooms, that the pancake accompanying scrambled egg, bamboo shoots the $9.50 mu shu pork was not and day lily buds. Since some of the traditional Asian preparation, these ingredients are hard to but more of a flour tortilla. This come by in the United States, one often finds shredded cabbage and was the only point of weakness carrot may take the place of of the though, and Mara found that the mushroom and lily buds. Rice wine flavors evoked her family’s favormay be replaced by a dry sherry. ite Queens Chinese restaurant. This mix of cabbage, carrots,

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term didn’t refer to peppery heat, but rather the classic five spice flavors that include glimmers of cinnamon and star anise. While this bird may have been leaner and drier than the unctuous poultry one might get at a Chinatown deli, it was still pleasantly edible, and I’d order it again. We also received four

Clay’s Obscurity Corner Mu shu pork While the original pancake may be more similar to a thin crepe or thicker bun like that found with Peking Duck, the use of a flour tortilla is a widespread practice.

buns that were a touch denser than usual, as well as a garnish of julienned cucumber, which was a new one for me. However, the inclusion of scallions and plummy hoisin sauce made for an authentic preparation. At first glimpse, the $10.50 steamed flounder appeared to be a simple dish. It consisted of nothing more than a whole fish and such traditional seasonings as soy sauce, scallions, cilantro and ginger. But these are the elemental flavors of Chinese cooking, and a whole fish carries significant symbolic value. The fact that you’re getting the entire animal, as opposed to a filet or fish without head or tail, is a testament to this ingredient’s freshness. A whole fish also symbolizes prosperity. Here, it was impeccably prepared, spotlighting perfectly textured fish accompanied by plenty of aromatic cooking liquid to drizzle over white rice. It’s unlikely that a Chinese restaurant along the lines of those found in San Francisco or New York will ever open its doors in Boulder County. However, I was pleasantly surprised by what Ting’s had to offer, and there’s no question it’s among the top Chinese kitchens in the area. I’d be more than happy to drive from Boulder to Lafayette for the flounder, perhaps accompanied by nothing more than steamed rice and vegetables. I’d find that a deeply satisfying Asian meal. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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Sunday, Dec. 9, at Mile High Station. The event will feature samples of bacon-based dishes from restaurants all over the Denver area as well as beer from several well-known local breweries, including several from Boulder. Proceeds from the event will benefit Metro CareRing and Project Angel Heart. The event is sponsored by @eatboston, Forkly and Denver Off the Wagon and is also supported by Whole Foods Market and American Homestead Bacon. For tickets and to RSVP, visit wheretoeat.in.

‘TIS THE SEASON OF GIVING LOTS AND LOTS OF FOOD

Door to Door Organics has kicked off its fourth annual food drive for the holidays. Now through Dec. 14, the company will be collecting canned goods from its customers’ doorsteps. These goods will be delivered along with a company donation of fresh organic produce to local food banks in the Feeding America network, which includes Community Food Share in Longmont, Food Bank for Larimer County in Fort Collins, Food Bank of the Rockies in Denver and Care and Share Food Bank for Southern Colorado in Colorado Springs. Door to Door Organics donated more than 1,700 pounds of canned goods last year, along with more than 4,300 pounds of fresh organic produce to these local food banks. In addition to the canned goods on doorsteps, Door to Door Organics has created a Facebook application called Give Good Food in which anyone can take a quiz on organic food. They will earn organic produce donations for every correct answer. The goal for the app is 10,000 pounds of donated food, which Door to Door says it hopes to reach before the food drive is over, but will keep the app running until the goal is reached. For more information on how to donate, visit colorado.doortodoororganics.com. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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thest away.” Boulder Happy Hours does not just limit itself to listing hours and specials. Cox says that the app allows users to search restaurants and bars by categories, email and share menus with friends, as well as seek transportation services. “One of the features that people really like is that you can call a taxicab,” he says. Similarly, Spotze, an app in the works from Boulder app developer Jacob Timm, will be able to connect users’ drink preferences with nearby restaurants. “I think places like The Med, where there’s a really crowded happy hour, it will work well in that environment,” Timm says. “You can’t always say what you want when you want to.” Timm says that he will add food soon and that the app will also target hotels, stores, breweries and restaurants. “Right now, we are accepting requests to be part of the beta test launch for the

new product,” he says. Timm previously developed the first version of Spotze for Apple’s iPhones and iPads, which enabled users to access a restaurant’s menu, order items, call for a server and pay for the bill, all on their own time. “I guess the best way to describe it is, if you were to walk into a restaurant where it was installed,” he says, “you would be able to locate yourself at the table and restaurant you’re at, and just by opening up the app, you’re able to see the menu and place orders.” With the second version of the app, Timm is focused on getting a strong base set up in Boulder before potentially expanding to different regions in the state or country. “I really like it to get local functionality first,” he says. “It’s just more meaningful if you have everybody in this area using it.” Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com Boulder Weekly

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Chicago-style sausage. Like the best Windy City dog purveyors, Mustard’s uses natural casing Vienna beef sausages, steamed poppyseed buns and a classic mix of condiments like peppers, celery salt and mustard — ketchup need not apply. Other treats include Italian beef sandwiches, garnished with jus “gravy,” peppers and onions.

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fter nearly two years in business, Boulder’s Pizzeria Locale has solidified its position as a go-to spot for wood-fired, Naples-style pie. Starters such as arancini, an addictingly rich fried melding of risotto and cheese, and desserts like the sensual butterscotch budino, an upscale pudding, have also burnished this eatery’s reputation. First-timers might want to try the Margherita, perhaps the most emblematic of Naples pie, with buffalo milk mozzarella, basil and tomato.

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onuts seem to have supplanted cupcakes as the retro sweet of the moment, and Boulder’s Dizzy’s Donuts is riding this wave by offering fresh takes on this pastry. Dizzy’s brews Ozo coffee alongside unique creations like maple bacon donuts. Other new-school selections include S’More and pumpkin cheesecake varieties, although classics like the first-rate apple fritter are more than satisfying.

Kasa Japanese Grill 1468 Pearl St., Boulder 303-938-8888

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asa Japanese Grill is unmatched in its design aesthetic and hospitable service. This Asian eatery offers all the standbys of Japanese cuisine, including fried tempura options, donburi rice bowls, yakitori skewers, noodles and, of course, sushi. Attention to detail is evident in offerings such as the perfectly steeped Sencha green tea and the agedashi tofu appetizer, and the bento lunches provide fine value.

Colterra

210 Franklin St., Niwot 303-652-0777

ow-key and locavore, Niwot’s Colterra spotlights fresh takes on traditional fare in a homey yet elegant setting. Weekend brunch options feature oatmeal, griddle cakes and egg dishes such as a reimagining of the classic Benedict with proscuitto and polenta cakes. Other top morning choices include a Long Farm sausage frittata and Grand Marnier beignets.

Tangier Moroccan Cuisine 3070 28th St., Boulder 303-443-3676

espite its nondescript 28th Street strip mall location, Tangier Moroccan Cuisine is a sensual delight that makes one feel far from Boulder. Featuring North African specialties, this restaurant also has a visually rich ambience. Can’t-miss dishes include the bastilla, a delightfully flaky savory pie stuffed with either vegetables or chicken, and the flavor-packed couscous selections. Tagines, gluten-free North African stews, arrive piping hot and feature such intriguing combinations as lamb with apple and apricot.

Shaggy’s Famous Poutine

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University Hill. Poutine is a mix of french fries, gravy and cheese curds. Shaggy’s dishes out filling portions of basic poutine, as well as sophisticated versions featuring jalapeños, chili and guacamole. One offering is the French Tickler, poutine featuring beef gravy and Montreal-style smoked meat.

Mediterranean Market 2690 28th St. Boulder 303-448-9552

oulder’s Mediterranean Market serves up simple, reasonably priced gyros and falafel near the corner of Bluff and 28th. Both the baba ganoush and hummus feature a remarkably silky texture packed with fresh flavor, and the gyro has a pleasing lamb savor that’s a cut above other versions. Sweets include a flaky, honeyed baklava that surprises with a gentle rosewater accent.

Black Pepper Pho 2770 Pearl St. Boulder 303-440-1948

oulder’s Black Pepper Pho is a spruced-up version of the typical Southeast Asian beef noodle soup joint. Boasting a mostly gluten-free menu, this venue dishes out first-class spring rolls and a winning spicy green papaya salad. Pho is available with a half-dozen beef-based variants, as well as chicken, seafood and meatless versions.

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sual Mexican food suspects such as tacos, enchiladas and tamales are readily available at Boulder’s Agave Mexico Bistro and Tequila House. But there are also more distinctive offerings such as grilled seafood plates and vegetarian dishes featuring breaded cauliflower and chile-simmered cactus. One memorable dish is the Tampiqueña, which combines tender carne asada with expertly prepared chicken mole enchilada.

Krishna Kafe

400 W. South Boulder Road, Lafayette 303-665-2012

rishna Kare is one of those cool ethnic finds that foodies live for, spotlighting chaat, or savory Indian street fare. Located in a Lafayette strip mall, this spot serves spicy options like samosa chaat, the familiar fried potato-filled turnovers submerged in peppy stewed garbanzos. There’s also a range of Indochinese dishes, a hybrid of Indian and Chinese cuisine. These include ginger-scented Hakka noodles and the intriguing Dry Manchurian, a chile- and soy-seasoned meatless dumpling.

Crane Hollow Cafe 7504 Hygiene Road Hygiene 303-776-1551

ygiene’s Crane Hollow Cafe is an endearingly rustic breakfast and lunch spot that may more closely resemble a friend’s countr y cottage than anything else. Offerings here are simple and satisfying, and the menu features such old standbys as corned beef hash and a standout biscuits and gravy. There’s also a full complement of espresso beverages and homemade pies, including a top-notch mixed berr y number.

Trattoria On Pearl 1430 Pearl St. Boulder 303-544-0008

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MARCH 21-APRIL 19:

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Spencer Silver was a coinventor of Post-it notes, those small, colorful pieces of paper you can temporarily attach to things and then remove to use again and again. Speaking about the process he went through to develop this simple marvel, he said, “If I had thought about it, I wouldn’t have done the experiment. The literature was full of examples that said you can’t do this.” I’d like to make him your patron saint for the next few weeks, Aries. Like him, you now have the chance to make practical breakthroughs that may have seemed impossible, or at least unlikely. Ignore conventional wisdom — including your own. Trust your mischievous intuition.

TAURUS

APRIL 20-MAY 20:

The axolotl is a kind of salamander that has an extraordinary capacity for regenerating itself. If it loses a leg in an accident, it will grow a new one in its place. It can even fix its damaged organs, including eyes, heart, and brain. And get this: There’s never any scar tissue left behind when its work is done. Its power to heal itself is pretty much perfect. I nominate the axolotl to be your power animal in the coming weeks, Taurus. According to my reading of the astrological omens, you now have an extraordinary ability to restore any part of your soul that got hurt or stolen or lost.

GEMINI

MAY 21-JUNE 20:

In the coming months, I hope that you will get sweet revenge. In fact, I predict that you will get sweet revenge. Keep in mind that I’m not talking about angry, roaring vindication. I don’t mean you will destroy the reputations of your adversaries or reduce them to humiliating poverty or laugh at them as they grovel for mercy while lying in a muddy gutter. No, Gemini. The kind of revenge I foresee is that you will achieve a ringing triumph by mastering a challenge they all believed would defeat you. And your ascent to victory starts now.

CANCER

JUNE 21-JULY 22:

I would love to speak with you about your hesitancy to fully confront your difficulties. But I will not speak forthrightly, since I’m pretty sure that would irritate you. It might even motivate you to procrastinate even further. So instead I will make a lame joke about how if you don’t stop avoiding the obvious, you will probably get bitten in the butt by a spider. I will try to subtly guilt-trip you into taking action by implying that I’ll be annoyed at you if you don’t. I will wax sarcastic and suggest that maybe just this once, ignorance is bliss. Hopefully that will nudge you into dealing straightforwardly with the unrest that’s burbling.

LEO

JULY 23-AUG. 22:

“Drama is life with all the boring parts cut out of it,” said Leo filmmaker Alfred Hitchcock. By that criterion, I’m guessing that your experience in the coming week will have a high concentration of magic and stimulation. You should be free from having to slog through stale details and prosaic storylines. Your word of power will be succulence. For best results, I suggest you take active control of the unfolding adventures. Be the director and lead actor in your drama, not a passive participant who merely reacts to what the other actors are doing.

VIRGO

AUG. 23-SEPT. 22:

One of my spiritual teachers once told me that a good spiritual teacher makes an effort not to seem too perfect. She said some teachers even cultivate odd quirks and harmless failings on purpose. Why? To get the best learning experience, students must be discouraged from over-idealizing the wise advisors they look up to. It’s crucial they understand that achieving utter purity is impossible and unrealistic. Being perceived as an infallible expert is dangerous for teachers, too; it makes them prone to egotistical grandiosity. I bring this up, Virgo, because it’s an excellent time to reduce the likelihood that you’ll be seduced by the illusion of perfection.

LIBRA

SEPT. 23-OCT. 22:

talks to yourself, this is a perfect time to start. And I do mean that you should speak the words out loud. Actually address yourself with passionate, humorous, ironic, sincere, insightful comments, as you would any person you care about. Why am I suggesting this? Because according to my interpretation of the astrological omens, you would benefit from the shock of literally hearing how your mind works. Even more importantly: The cheerleading you do, the encouragement you deliver, and the motivational speeches you give would have an unusually powerful impact if they were audibly articulated.

SCORPIO

OCT. 23-NOV. 21:

In the fairy tale “Beauty and the Beast,” a grotesque humanlike creature hosts the heroine in his home, treating her like a queen. She accepts his hospitality but rejects his constant requests to marry him. Eventually, he collapses from heartache. Moved by the depth of his suffering, she breaks into tears and confesses her deep affection for him. This shatters the spell and magically transforms the Beast back into the handsome prince he originally was. Your life may have parallels to this story in the coming months, Scorpio. You might be tested. Can you discern the truth about a valuable resource that doesn’t look very sexy? Will you be able to see beauty embedded in a rough or shabby form?

SAGITTARIUS NOV. 22-DEC. 21:

If you thoroughly shuffle a deck of cards, the novel arrangement you create is probably unique in all of human history; its specific order has never before occurred. I suspect the same principle applies to our lives: Each new day brings a singular set of circumstances that neither you nor anyone else in the last 10,000 years has ever had the pleasure of being challenged and intrigued by. There is always some fresh opportunity, however small, that is being offered you for the first time. I think it’s important for you to keep this perspective in mind during the coming week. Be alert for what you have never seen or experienced before.

CAPRICORN

DEC. 22-JAN. 19:

I wish I could do more than just fantasize about helping you achieve greater freedom. In my dreams, I am obliterating delusions that keep you moored to false idols. I am setting fire to the unnecessary burdens you lug around. And I am tearing you away from the galling compromises you made once upon a time in order to please people who don’t deserve to have so much power over you. But it’s actually a good thing I can’t just wave a magic wand to make all this happen. Here’s a much better solution: You will clarify your analysis of the binds you’re in, supercharge your willpower, and liberate yourself.

AQUARIUS

JAN. 20-FEB. 18:

In his book Even Cowgirls Get the Blues, Tom Robbins talks about a gourmet who “gave up everything, traveled thousands of miles and spent his last dime to get to the highest lamasery in the Himalayas to taste the dish he’d longed for his whole life, Tibetan peach pie. When he got there … the lamas said they were all out of peach. ‘Okay,’ said the gourmet, ‘make it apple.’” I suspect you’ll be having a comparable experience sometime soon, Aquarius. You may not get the exact treat you wanted, but what you’ll receive in its place is something that’s pretty damn good. I urge you to accept the gift as is!

PISCES

FEB. 19-MARCH 20:

“Having ‘a sense of self ’ means possessing a set of stories about who we are,” according to William Kittredge in his book The Nature of Generosity. He says there are two basic types of stories: The first is “cautionary tales, which warn us” and therefore protect us. The second consists of “celebratory” tales, which we use to heal and calm ourselves. I believe that you Pisceans are now in a phase when you primarily need celebratory stories. It’s time to define yourself with accounts of what you love and value and regard as precious.

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It is intended to be read to children to help them understand adoption and families regardless of their own family relationships. The book is available with a mixed gender couple, and with two mothers and two fathers, as well as single parents. There are versions in Spanish and Italian as well. It is available at the Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl Street, Boulder CO

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